Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals
One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.
Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.
Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.
I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through music bins, buying stacks and stacks of CDs, and discovering rarely played pieces by composers.
There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.
I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.
If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.
I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, "This is Beam Me Up. " Then to my right. "And this is Scotty. " Garret chuckled and buried his face in his hands. He asked.
Every action has an ancestor of a thought.
You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.