#ra

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. ↗

— Elton John

#fabulous #gift #had #instrument #jerry

I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he? ↗

— Ian St. John

#christmas #dance #decorating #digging #does

Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions. ↗

— Lara St. John

#another #appearance #capable #decisions #despite

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality. ↗

— Lara St. John

#down #ergo #go #money #orchestras

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general. ↗

— Lara St. John

#canada #general #government #many #massively

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know. ↗

— Lara St. John

#era #grateful #having #history #i

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways. ↗

— Lara St. John

#canadians #cards #contained #difficult #fact

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen. ↗

— Lara St. John

#bit #curiosity #ever #first #had

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong. ↗

— Lara St. John

#brings #concert #crowd #goes #impulse

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#come #family #farming #gambling #generally