"I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist."

-- Donald Fagen

#Kids Quotes #Years Quotes #Play Quotes

“I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.”

Source : Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 17, 2006.
“To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.”

Source : "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.
“I guess if your heart's in the right place, the trash can go anywhere.”
“I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.”
“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”
“When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.”
“I like to explore things.”
“[... Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of feeling. Some of these feelings we can name, and some we cannot, since we associate feelings with language only when we name them. The body lives sentience on a preverbal level. Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.”

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