#ear

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear. ↗

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City. ↗

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#each #ears #fields #individual #just

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#dirty #doing #enough #i #i am

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#much #oneself #perfecting

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#give #heart #life #living #must

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#bits #children #discovered #forgot #i

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience. ↗