If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.


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STEPHEN FRY
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
STEPHEN KING
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY
Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. A...
STEPHEN KINZER
Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w...
STEPHEN MARLEY
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
STEPHEN KINZER
Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY
If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE
There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY
That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa...
STEPHEN KENDRICK
When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING
His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING
God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS
I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER
After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY
You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS
Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING
We accept the love we think we deserve.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with som...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. An...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain,...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Enjoy it. Because it's happening.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
This moment will just be another story someday.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the re...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each othe...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY