Esfahani Quotes

#1. If you're not former military, join the Marine Corps.

Chet Richards

#2. There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Benjamin Whichcote

#3. The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.

Josephine Decker

#4. Externally we are a single being, but internally we are a world.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#5. God is closer than you think, closer than thinking, before thought.

Vivian Amis

#6. I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

Patti LuPone

#7. I mean to me, the harpsichord has a huge dynamic range. And I always say to people, come and listen to it. You know, come and listen. Come and actually experience this and realize there's good harpsichord playing, there's bad harpsichord playing. By the way, I am fun outside of this context.

Mahan Esfahani

#8. A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.

Mary Oliver

#9. Losing someone is like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.

Stewart Lewis

#10. I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.

Mahan Esfahani

#11. For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#12. I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know, I mean, harpsichord is a really easy target, isn't it? I mean, it's - it's just how it is.

Mahan Esfahani

#13. Forgetting about you was the worst part." At first, Thomas thought it was another message in his head; he squeezed his fists against his ears.

James Dashner

#14. Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

Arthur Guiterman

#15. When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.

Mahan Esfahani

#16. Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all.

Mahan Esfahani

#17. As much as we might wish, none of us will be able to go through life without some kind of suffering. That's why it's crucial for us to learn to suffer well.

Emily Esfahani Smith

#18. And it totally has transformed my relationship with someone like, say, Bach. You know, Bach is born 330 years ago but, you know, gosh, he really is alive.

Mahan Esfahani

#19. There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

Ragnar Tornquist

#20. I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him was hearing Vivaldi, hearing the sort of manipulation of small cells of information and patterns in order to generate sort of huge blocks of harmony.

Mahan Esfahani

#21. God and the Angels can and want to assist you with all aspects of your life. Your happiness and life is their primary mission.

Jan Porter

#22. The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.

Mahan Esfahani

#23. Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.

Mahan Esfahani