Maya Beiser quotes
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“I want to create endless possibilities with this cello. I become the medium through which the music is being channeled.”
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“From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony.”
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“It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.”
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“A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.”
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“I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.”
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“I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.”
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“I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.”
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“I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.”
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“I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.”
-- Maya Beiser
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“Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.”
Source : Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.12, Laurel Leaf
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”
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“One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.”
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“Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.”
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“In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'”
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“By not sharing our interests, talents and abilities, we limit our possibilities.”
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