Jacqueline du Pre famous quotes

06-13-2025

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.
-- Jacqueline du Pre

#Delirious
I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
-- Jacqueline du Pre

#Beautiful #Play #Feelings
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
-- Jacqueline du Pre

#Drunk #Herbs #Intense

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.
Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.

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