I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.
I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.
The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.
Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.
Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.
When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.
Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.
Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.
Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.