"When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them."

-- Edvard Grieg

#Real Quotes #Mean Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is.”
“Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.”
“I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.”
“A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror”
“I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.”

Source : "Year of the Dragon". Los Angeles Times, May 2012.
“In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.”
“Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.”
“Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.”

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