“I usually need a lot of time to be completely alone with the particular piece, the composer, and the instrument. I also prefer a very quiet atmosphere, and I usually choose pieces that are very close to my personality, my heart. I think the audience can feel it.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsHeartAudiencePiecesParticularPersonalityMy HeartQuietInstrumentsAtmosphereComposer Author:Rafal Blechacz
“I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.” IfsThinkingNeedsImportantSpaceParticularQuietBreathingStillnessTake TimeListening To MusicStretching Author:Zachary Quinto
“I feel alive in quiet moments with my son, riding our bikes or watching him line his trains up in a particular order, witnessing how his mind works, hearing him learn a new word. I'm alive in these special moments because I never knew a love like this.” FeelsMindMomentsOrderLinesAliveSpecialParticularSonQuietTrainHearingMy SonRidingBikeI'm AliveNew WordsQuiet MomentsSpecial Moments Author:Alicia Keys
“If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsMightAgeCoursesWaterImaginationTreeParticularQuietRiversStonesOpeningHeatSandFinding YourselfVillageCountrysideChristmas TreeRusticWiltingEnglish CountrysideElm Trees Author:J. R. R. Tolkien