"I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers.""

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Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

Andrew Wyeth

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“Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.”

Source : "3 Business Myths People Should Stop Believing" by Fran Tarkenton, www.businessinsider.com. January 14, 2015.
“Enquire: 'Who am I?' and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the same Atman everywhere.”
“If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.”
“It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.418, A&C Black
“Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.”

Source : "Virginia Johnson obituary" by Suzie Hayman, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.
“I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.”
“I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.”
“In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.”

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