Top 17 Lara St. John Quotes

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket – being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things – and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one’s children is paramount.

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.