Discovery

Caspar David Friedrich: Treibende Wolken https://www.meisterdrucke.de/kunstdrucke/Caspar-David-Friedrich/85980/Treibende-Wolken.html

“Everything’s better under the stars, I suppose.”

— Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

PSA

pro tip kiddos

take the time now and become so fucking good. practice; constantly, everything. learn everything you can. get upperclassmen, staff, anyone you can, to teach you. learn from your own mistakes, learn from the mistakes of people around you. learn from every source you have at your disposal. get creative. play easy songs you enjoy, because they will motivate you to practice. practice hard exercises that make you want to give up, because they will make you better. take the years you have now and become the best you can be, because regardless of what situation high school lands you in, you will be so good your chances at become better will soar. your peers will look up to you, because you have so much to teach and share. your superiors and staff will look up to you, because you have developed habits and skill and that are invaluable and have so much to give. you will have so many doors open to you, because you took the time to open them before you knew they existed. and finally brother, you will have learned, before your time, the most important lesson of all; what it truly means to be a musician, and that there is still so much more room to grow

to @recorder-jesus, on looking forward to moving up a level

Muyang Xu

Excellent history fact to remember;

Niccolo Machiavelli and Leonardo Da Vinci, most likely at the behest of the Borgias, once conspired to steal a river.

That’s right folks. They planned to change the course of the Arno River so that they could steal it from Pisa and make Florence accessible by sea. 

Please take a moment to imagine that.

Please. 

…the real problem with technique is not always how fast you can wiggle your fingers (anyone on the street can do that), but rather how they are positioned and how clearly your brain and hands are working together.

Stephen Hough (Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves)

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached

Edward Sapir (1929), “The status of linguistics as a science”, Language 5 (4): 207, doi:10.2307/409588 (via linguisten)

“I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat.”

— Tennessee Williams, The Selected Letters: 1920-1945 (via books-n-quotes)