Quotes About Rubato

#1. Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

Karol Mikuli

#2. Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

E. E. Cummings

#4. As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

Aleksandar Hemon

#5. And I would speak to him through the shooting stars every day.

Morgan Parker

#6. In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

Mukesh Ambani

#7. To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

John Piper

#8. Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature

Thomas Merton

#9. In this section you will learn how to use the tools the way that I think you will choose to use them by default.

Alan Richardson

#10. How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another ... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

Les Dawson

#11. My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

Dean Norris

#12. I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

Sargent Shriver

#13. A young Buddhist frog took a leap,
into some traffic, "Beep, Beep!"
He sprang from his feet,
jumping into the street,
and soon became one with a jeep.

-The Ginger Poem of the Month

Lennie Peterson

#14. Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?

Patrick Ness

#15. ...shame can do things to people's minds. It warps them from the truth, allowing them only to see what they want to see.

Liz Durano