Nils Frahm Quotes
Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
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If I was in a horrorfilm I’d die first, because I would have no idea what’s going on.
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When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion.
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When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.
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The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition - the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself.
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Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
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I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?
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Emotions are lovely. Even if they fall to the negative for a time. The sun will rise again another day. The sadness perhaps never forgotten, but a new day enjoyed in another way. A way that could not have been but for the sadness’s existence.
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I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.
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I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done - I don't think I could ever really play anything else, I would be a bit out of it without a piano.
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Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.
