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“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
― J. S. Bach

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
― Leonard Bernstein

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”
― Johannes Brahms

“What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
― Steve Jobs

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“When you play, never mind who listens to you.”
― Robert Schumann

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
― Abraham Lincoln

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When we lived in England for a short while, we experienced one of the most violent windstorms that had ever hit England. More than 750 thousand trees were felled in one night. Some days later we were walking in the parks past huge trees that had been completely uprooted by the wind. My wife noticed how shallow the root systems were on some of those massive trees. When we mentioned this to someone, they pointed out that in England the water table is so close to the surface that the roots of the trees do not have to penetrate deep for nourishment. As a result, the trunk grows in disproportion to the roots. When a severe storm hits, these gigantic trees are uprooted because there is nothing to anchor them. What an illustration that is of a life without prayer. You can be sure that in every marriage the storms will hit. It is in your deep immersion into the Word that your roots will be able to hold the home together. The Word should be the foundation of your home. It is not at all surprising that as the Church has become illiterate in the Scriptures, it has resembled the world more in its behavior, uprooted by every new fanciful philosophy and fad.”
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love

“The voice that breathed o’er Eden, That earliest wedding-day The primal marriage blessing, It hath not passed away.
Be present, heavenly Father, To give away this bride, As Eve thou gav’st to Adam Out of his own pierced side.
Be present, gracious Savior, To join their loving hands, As Thou didst bind two natures In Thine eternal bands.
Be present, Holy Spirit, To bless them as they kneel, As Thou for Christ the bridegroom The heavenly spouse dost seal.
O spread Thy pure wings o’er them! Let no ill power find place, When onward through life’s journey The hallowed path they trace,
To cast their crowns before Thee, In perfect sacrifice, Till to the home of gladness With Christ’s own bride they rise.”
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love

“Take the opportunity to write your vocal activity every day for twenty-one days. Log your reading, the amount of time spent doing warm-ups, exercises, and songs.”
― Nancy Bos, Singing 101: Vocal Basics and Fundamental Singing Skills for All Styles and Abilities

“Why x do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? 47 y Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: 48he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. [3] 49 z But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and a the ruin of that house was great.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“16You will recognize them l by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17So, m every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 n Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“Most of us have more than enough time to work with, even in busy seasons of life. We just have to reallocate our time to “seek first the kingdom of God,”7 not the kingdom of entertainment.”
― John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

“Steinway made its soundboards with eastern white spruce until the 1920s. Today the remaining spruce trees in the East cannot provide boards long enough, or wide enough, for pianos. “That’s all logged out,” Albrecht says flatly. And, while Steinway can glue boards together vertically (with the grain), as it does for the rims, it cannot do so horizontally (against the grain). So, long before Albrecht came on the job, Steinway had gone west and found the Tebbs. Steinway adopted the northwestern spruce from twenty-five hundred miles away, where gnarly roots serve as an anchor in soil so wet that logging is often an amphibious proposition.”
― James Barron, Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand

“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
― F. M. Alexander

“who  qstills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves,”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version