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• My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child… — Dave Brubeck
• On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done,… — Maya Angelou
• Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens,… — Maya Angelou
• It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all… — James Marsters
• Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story… — Amitava Kumar
• If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play… — Jeremy Denk
• Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge… — Chet Atkins
• Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy. — James Huneker
• To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just… — Witold Gombrowicz
• It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to… — Robert Schumann
• We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not… — Robert Schumann
• After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning… — Oscar Wilde

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