La Vie En Rose Playing From Another Room

Hey guys! Haven’t made a quotes masterpost in a while, so I created one for the composes! And I know it’s a different header format, but I wanted to try it out! As always, I hope you enjoy these quotes and find them inspirational, like I have.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

Johannes Brahms

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”

Virgil Thomson

“Let your mind alone, and see what happens.”

“I don’t go around regretting things that don’t happen.”

“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”

Franz Schubert

“Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.”

“The moment is supreme.”

“The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.”

“You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.”

Gustav Mahler

“It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.”

“Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.”

“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”

“It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.”

“Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one’s way.”

“The point is not to take the world’s opinion as a guiding star but to go one’s way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.”

“I don’t let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.”

Claude Debussy

“A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.”

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”

John Cage

“We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.”

“We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.”

“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”

“We need not destroy the past. It is gone.”

“When we separate music from life we get art.”

Leonard Bernstein

“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”

Franz Liszt

“Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.”

“Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.”

George Gershwin

“Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.”

“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.”

“I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.”

“It is always possible to create something original.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

“I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.”

“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

“This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the divine.”

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*UPDATED* Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. Some are short, some are very interactive, some are better than others. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.I checked each link to make sure they are functioning.

Spanish

Beginner 

Beginner’s Spanish:Food & Drink

Spanish 103 - Review of Elementary Spanish

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Preparing for the AP Spanish Exam

Spanish for Beginners

Basic Spanish for English Speakers

Fastbreak Spanish

Intermediate 

Spanish:Reading, Grammar, and Composition 

Spanish:Ciudades con Historia

Spanish:Espacios Públicos 

Advanced

Leer a Macondo (Taught in Spanish)

Spanish:Con Mis Propias Manos

Spanish: Perspectivas Porteñas

Corrección, estilo y variaciones

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Beginner’s French: Food & Drink

Français Interactif

Elementary French I

Elementary French II

French:Ouverture

Intermediate

French: Le Quatorze Juillet

Passe Partout

Advanced

La Francophonie Essence Culturelle

La Cité des Sciences et de Industrie

Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners

Italian

Beginner

Survive Italy Without Being Fluent

Beginner’s Italian: Food & Drink

Beginner Italian I

Oggi e Domani

Intermediate

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced 

Italian Literature 

Italian Novel of the Twentieth Century 

Advanced Italian I

Latin

Latin I (Taught in Italian)

Russian

Beginner

Russian Alphabet

Reading and Writing Russian

Russian Phonetics and Pronunciation

Russian for Beginners

Easy Accelerated Learning for Russian

Basics of Russian

Russian Level I

Travel Russian

Advanced

Business Russian

Let Us Speak Russian 

Russian as an Instrument of Communication

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Kazakh

A1 Kazakh (Taught in Russian)

Chinese

Beginner

First Year Chinese I

First Year Chinese II

Chinese for Beginners

Basic Mandarin Chinese I

Basic Mandarin Chinese II

UT Chinese 

Chinese for Travelers

Beginner’s Chinese

Chinese Characters

Oral Chinese

Chinese Made Easy

Mandarin I

Chinese is Easy

Start Talking Mandarin Chinese

Easy Mandarin

Intermediate

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Japanese

Japanese JOSHU

Beginner’s Conversational Japanese

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji I

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji II

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji III

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji IV

Korean

Beginner

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

German

Beginner

German Alphabet

Beginner’s German: Food & Drink

Rundblick-Beginner’s German

German Modal Verbs

Basic German Grammar

Study German Language from Native Speakers

German A1 Grammar

Deutsch im Blick

Advanced

German:Regionen Traditionen und Geschichte

Norwegian

Norwegian on the Web

Finnish

Basic Finnish

Finnish for Medical Professionals

Frisian

Introduction to Frisian  (Taught in Dutch)

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Arabic

Arabic Language for Beginners

Arabic for Global Exchange

Arabic Fast Track

Moroccan Arabic

Conversational Arabic Made Easy

Arabic Without Walls

Hebrew

Hebrew Alphabet Crashcourse

Know the Hebrew Alphabet

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Business Hindi

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Nepali

Beginner’s Conversation and Grammar

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Irish

Introduction to Irish

I’ll keep an eye out for new courses and if you know of any, let me know so I can update this list.

Last updated: January 1,2016

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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