"The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life."

-- Pablo Casals

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“Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1845). “Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil”, p.151
“The voice of nature is always encouraging.”
“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”
“The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”
“Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.”
“If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then it would of course be finished as mythic activity. Free of doubt, controversy, and the inexplicable fluctuation of reputation, art-making would bear the same relationship to creativity as cake mix does to baking.”
“I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. There's just less happening around me, and I have more time and concentration to work on music.”
“It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.”

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