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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes
-Marcel Proust
I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.
-John Coltrane
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
The artist has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time; he has to look at life as he did when he was a child. . . . The first step toward creation is to see everything as it really is, and that demands a constant effort.
-Henri Matisse
When you play music, you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed.
– Bill Evans
The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.
-St. Anthony
At the point when sleep has not yet come and wakefulness vanishes, being is revealed.
-Shiva
...music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts.
- T.S. Eliot
If you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time…that’s where great art and music happens.
- Miles Davis
We never play the same thing the same way once.
- Shelly Mann
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
- Artur Schnabel
The more experience one has, the more simplicity is profound.
- Keith Jarrett
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra
The future ain’t what it used to be.
-Yogi Berra
If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.
- Professor Irwin Corey