My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.

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• Pinetop Perkins:

  I play blues old-timey style.

• Pinetop Perkins:

  I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the gui

• Pinetop Perkins:

  What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

• Pinetop Perkins:

  I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and

• Pinetop Perkins:

  What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister d

• Pinetop Perkins:

  I play any piano with a good tune.

• Gian Carlo Menotti:

  Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

• Gian Carlo Menotti:

  Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

• Gian Carlo Menotti:

  Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all

• Gian Carlo Menotti:

  Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.