#tempo

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #contemporaries #great #grew #him

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. ↗

— George MacDonald

#appreciate #assumptions #body #demon #disease

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#continue #guided #never #oneself #opinion

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#besides #contemporary #many #may #other

There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#begin #being #bit #contemporary #even

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. ↗

— John McCarthy

#beautiful word #between #compulsory #contemporary #difference

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#about #admire #always #entirety #films

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it. ↗

— Paul Merton

#comedy #contemporary #fact #fear #i

The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#feet #fully #laboratory #middle #operational

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#arts #background #civilization #contemporary #dark