Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.
The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use. . . and slowly I got into playing.
I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.
I am not what one calls a celebrity.
My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in any music but, he hang on to continue training at the Academy of Music. . . however, I never mentioned to my teachers that I trained myself at weekends in clubs.
As an example, there is a Japanese composer singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled "Kazeno Komoriuta" and I have recorded my piano adaptation of this song and honestly I couldn't expect that it would be so difficult and challenging for me to perform my piano version of this beautiful song.
It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.
It is high time that the E. U. 's internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he -- or she -- is traveling abroad.
I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast.
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity. ) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.