“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
Kurt Vonnegut.
(Source: aconversationoncool)
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“The factors that shape the sound of the music are often the ones that enable musicians to make a living playing it in the first place.”
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Iva Spence’s (1892-1990 — my great uncle’s mother) Graded Lessons in English, published in 1904.
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Found: a small Oxford University Press Bible with a metal clasp, dated in the early 1900’s, inscribed and bookmarked; and The Primitive Hymns dated 1900.
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Found: pages of The Atlanta Journal Magazine, November 17, 1935, in an old family Bible.
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Senior Recital, February 1980: Claude Bolling & Jean-Pierre Rampal - Baroque And Blue (from “Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano”)
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“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
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