"Every path serves a purpose."

“Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.”

“Passion - eventually it cools.”

Source : Francesca Marciano (2011). “Casa Rossa”, p.306, Random House

“The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.”

“Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural things. It is more exciting to stand still than to dance. Silence is more eloquent than speech. Water is more stimulating than wine. Fresh air is more intoxicating than cigarette smoke. Sunlight is more subtle than electric light. The scent of grass is more luxurious than the most expensive perfume. The slow, simple observations of the peasant are more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit.”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”

“What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves”

“When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.”

“Scene study is isolated. I suppose its interesting, but I dont think it really teaches you about a throughline. A throughline is something you feel when you do one scene followed by another followed by another.”