Akiko Quotes & Sayings

In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet. — Akiko Busch

Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble. — Anne Akiko Meyers

Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home. — Akiko Busch

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it. — Anne Akiko Meyers

For the record, I do not smoke cigarettes. They use them in fashion shots to make us look cool I guess. — Carolyn Murphy

I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through music bins, buying stacks and stacks of CDs, and discovering rarely played pieces by composers. — Anne Akiko Meyers

I'm not a habitual practitioner of the art of face-painting. — Akiko Higashimura

I can give myself to her
In her dreams
Whispering her own poems
In her ear as she sleeps beside me. — Akiko Yosano

One of the best exercises in meekness we can perform is when the subject Is in ourselves. We must not fret over our own imperfections. Although reason requires that we must be displeased and sorry whenever we commit a fault we must refrain from bitter, gloomy,spiteful, and emotional displeasure. Many people are greatly at fault in this way. When overcome by anger they become angry at being angry, disturbed at being disturbed and vexed at being vexed. By such means they keep their hearts drenched and steeped in passion. — Francis De Sales

I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue. — Sylvester Stallone

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work. — Anne Akiko Meyers

nest and prompt their children to follow them. The chicks were reluctant at first but then — D.A. Stevens

Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question. — Anne Akiko Meyers

Yet though Americans have been driving up to their houses for decades and entering through backdoors, side doors, kitchen doors, and especially doors through garages, architects keep designing houses with ceremonial front doors that are nowhere near any car or driveway. — Akiko Busch

I gave him my life, but you cannot ask me to stop living. — Victoria Schwab

I remember performing in Russia when I was twenty, and I stayed at this hotel with 3000 rooms. There were sailors knocking on my room door, wanting to barter stuffed animals with Marlboros that I had been instructed to bring! — Anne Akiko Meyers

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician. — Anne Akiko Meyers

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this. — Anne Akiko Meyers

Akiko Tsuruga ranks as one of the top organists around today. — Scott Yanow