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"Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance."
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"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."

"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."

"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."

"I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance."

"As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform."

"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."

"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."

"The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections."

"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."

"When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows."
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"However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously."


"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative."


"Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible."


"So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending."


"The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?"


"But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training."


"The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language."


"To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit."
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