Rafal's Quotes

#1. Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

Adam Levine

#2. Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.

Talib Kweli

#3. There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. There are so many people who are interested in classical music. Fortunately, I think many of them are quite young, so it's wonderful to present new programs to them.

Rafal Blechacz

#5. It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

Austin O'Malley

#6. It's important to play the pieces that you feel you can play well. It was always my dream to play Bach - my first love and fascination - Chopin, and Szymanowski.

Rafal Blechacz

#7. The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.

Donald A. Norman

#8. Getting laid off was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. But it led to the best results.

Tom Smallwood

#9. Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

Radhanath Swami

#10. Silence fell between the two couples. Even the Storian faltered, unsure who was defending who anymore. "Don't mind me," Rafal prodded, smiling. "Who needs a villain when you three have each other?

Soman Chainani

#11. This time Sophie felt very different in Rafal's arms as he flew over the bay. Instead of safe, she felt scared; instead of loved, she felt caged.

Soman Chainani

#12. Gays should be fought against.

Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz

#13. And my religious hunger, now invents God
To make them a frame, to fill the void.

Then my silly pious sense of harmony
Loudly rejoices in orderly actuality

But already, my fierce rebellion, the best poet
Calmly sharpens a knife on the stone of my heart.

Rafal Wojaczek

#14. As much as I'm enjoying it there's always this small voice in my head telling me not to give up control.

Eve Berlin

#15. Do you know who I am?" (Cassidy)
"Cassidy Summers, approximately thirty-years-old and a waitress who isn't sure who the father of her child really is." (Ashling)

Rosetta M. Overman

#16. Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#17. All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

Alexander Herzen

#18. Once I appealed to distinguish words "gay" and "homosexual" ( ... ). "Gayship" is a political homosexualism, a sort of left-wing ideology based on a bias against traditional lifestyle ( ... ). Homosexualism is a sexual preference.

Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz

#19. I love Arthur Rubinstein, especially his live recordings. I think his Chopin Mazurkas, his interpretation of the Polonaises, and the Concertos of Chopin are just incredible. When I was a child, I wanted to play more and more Chopin because of his recordings.

Rafal Blechacz

#20. I dreamt of playing in the big halls all over the world and it has always been my dream to play for people in many different countries.

Rafal Blechacz

#21. Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

Dhani Harrison

#22. Keep clearly in mind the following truth: the things we keep foremost in our mind get our attention, and whatever gets our attention, gets done!

Josh Hinds

#23. I usually need a lot of time to be completely alone with the particular piece, the composer, and the instrument. I also prefer a very quiet atmosphere, and I usually choose pieces that are very close to my personality, my heart. I think the audience can feel it.

Rafal Blechacz

#24. My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.

Rafal Blechacz

#25. A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

Rafal Blechacz

#26. Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.

Bruce Chatwin

#27. Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

Rafal Blechacz

#28. We are free to change the world and start something new in it.

Hannah Arendt