Ella Leya Quotes
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Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.
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I believe that music is God's voice.
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My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
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If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
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Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.
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Life without music is no life at all.
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Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.
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I'll note you in my book of memory.
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With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Pour'd thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.
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When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’
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A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
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What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!
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I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
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Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.
