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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes

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An amateur practices until he can do a thing right, a professional until he can’t do it wrong.”

~ Percy C. Buck

"Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

~Frederick Chopin

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, then starting on the first one."

~ Mark Twain

“Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.”

~ Henry Ford

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

~ Aristotle

“When you play, never mind who listens to you.”

~ Robert Schumann

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Have I a secret about playing the piano? It is a very simple one. I sit down on the piano-stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.”

~ Artur Schnabel

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Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.”

~ Victor Borge

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happy new year !!

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“Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You’ll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they’re saying, and what they’re thinking, and what they’re up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”

— Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance

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“The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself.”

— Elizabeth Scott

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“I think one of the saddest things is when two people really get to know each other: their secrets, their fears, their favourite things, what they love, what they hate, literally everything, and then they go back to being strangers. It’s like you have to walk past them and pretend like you never knew them, never even talked to them before, when really, you know everything about them.”

— ousia-poetica

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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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