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Arthur C. Clarke
“But most of the time, with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a long and busy life, he sat before the keyboard and filled the air with his beloved Bach.
Perhaps he was deceiving himself, perhaps this was some merciful trick of the mind but now it seemed to Jan that this what he had always wished to do. His secret ambition had at last dared to emerge into the full light of consciousness.

Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.”
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke
“Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.”
Arthur C. Clarke

David Mutti Clark
“You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue note among all these black and white keys. The real blues, the soul of the sound, comes from the spaces in-between.”
David Mutti Clark, Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Thad Carhart
“I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life.”
Thad Carhart, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier

Benjamin Franklin
“Doth nought return-- Only a spear and sword, and ashes in an urn! For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War's money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to hearts that held them dear, Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear, Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul; Yea, fills the light urn full With what survived the flame-- Death's dusty measure of a hero's frame!”
Benjamin Franklin, The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

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