#pie

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#alive #being #best #comes #feel

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#done #forget #getting #i #i think

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#driven #economically #going #i #one time

I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#athletes #been #come #dozen #fascinated

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#about #admirers #basis #between #collectors

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#america #candidate #country #declare #deserves

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#everybody #mean #meat #necessarily #person

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ↗

— Ricardo Flores Magon

#anybody #arms #bread #free #lift

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#destiny #happier #least #making #me

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#better #certainly #different #different person #happier