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If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules.… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
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I was pretty young when my folks were playing those kinds of records, '70s rock and psychedelic stuff. So I just remember… — Borns Copy Share Image
Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices:… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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