I always play what I feel. I always feel like me, but I’m a different me every day. I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don’t.
Legendary Jazz Pianist Erroll Garner
The desert that often extends itself around town has a million names in Arabic. The one that became most used was Sahara. The word contains a root that means tawny, red, brown. It does not evoke a determined geographic form but the color of an indistinct outside.
Nadjim oud-Dine Bammate, Cités d’Islam
He estao durmiendo a dos metros bajo tierra, y ahora he decidio dormir sobre la tierra. He pasao tanto tiempo lamentando lo que no entendía, que ahora prefiero que me den la clara del día.
Bebe, No Más Llorá
“Ninguém é dono da verdade.” (Nobody is the owner of the truth).
Cleusa, Vila Estrela, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
“Hope is the thing with feathers,
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops—at all”
Emily Dickinson
A few quotes from Dr. Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole in 1999.
“More and more as I am here and see what life really is, I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.”
“I would rather not have it. But the cancer is part of me. It’s given my life color and texture. Everyone has to get something. Some people are ugly, some people are stupid. I get cancer.”
“Eu nasci água.” (I was born water).
Brazilian writer, Antônio Torres, imagining how Rio would begin to tell its story.
Torres recounts (in portuguese) how the area upon which Rio was settled, originally an archipelago, gave way to wetlands, marshes, swamps and mangroves.
“The triumph of genius is the capacity to imagine and condense experience—not as it is literally seen, but as it is emotionally understood. The rest is just yesterday’s news.”
Barbara Rose in The Entire Human Comedy Encompassed by One Hand.
“Quien puede perder todo en cualquier momento, debe dar todo en todo momento.”
Mi amigo Guillermo relatando lo que dijo un comandante Argentino en la Guerra de las Malvinas, Pizza Park, Bairro Humaíta, Rio de Janeiro, Septiembre 2010
But linear time is a Western invention,
time is not linear,
it is a marvelous tangle,
where, at any moment,
points can be selected and solutions invented,
without no beginning or end.
Lina Bo Bardi in Lina Bo Bardi,
Instituto Lina Bo Bardi, Sao Paulo,
1994, p. 326.
