Songini Quotes & Sayings

As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most important thing for the performer is, after all, to create a special atmosphere - we enter the composer's feelings and emotions and recreate them freshly for a given audience. — Rafal Blechacz

Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up. — Vandana Shiva

For if by natural instinct or wisdom we could bring ourselves back to the road and escape from error, we would have no need for Christ. But — John Calvin

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question
whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all. — Paul Auster

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career. — Dale Carnegie

When John-Joseph Heller's fights became too much of a sure thing, story has it he moved on to more risky fights with grown men and even starved dogs. Though he was scarred often, he was never beaten. But as he brought each opponent to his knees, John-Joseph Heller was also growing up and his vision began to extend further than the ring. — S.C. Barrus

People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful. — Sarah Jessica Parker

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so. — John McCain