Quotes by Lara St. John - Page 1

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Looks
No Reason
Reason
Who I Am
Hide
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Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Dad
Father's Day
Great Guy
Guy
Never Forget
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Benefactors
Canada
Incentives
Incentive
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Appearance
Capable
Making Decisions
Decisions
Youthful
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Notes
Pure
Scale
Anywhere
Historically
Systems
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When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Travel
Attention
Destination
People
Arrive
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Art
Government
Canada
Orchestra
Years
Arts
General
Massively
Supported
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Orchestra
Probable
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And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Curry
Life Time Long
Apparently
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The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.
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And Love
Made
Pieces
Scales
Concept
Love Know Like
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Curiosity
Hydrogen
Patient
Naturally
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Crowds
Impulse
Reactions
Strange
Accident
Brings
Concert
Normally
Reaction
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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
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Airline
Boards
Laptops
Violin
Board
Laptop
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Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Imagination
Children
Ears
Eye
Importance
Paramount
People
Although
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I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Grateful
Lucky
Past
Violin
Era
Link
Portion
Presumably
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There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Intonation
Play
Possibility
Pure
Solo
Trying
Voice
Earthly
Instrument
String
Tempered
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What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
Lara St. John / Violinist
Classical Music
Energy
Epitome
Passion
Popular Music
Sensual
Sensuality
Understated
Begin
Touch
Life Music Passion
Classical
Popular
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I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
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Female
Loses
Performers
Certain Age
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Men
Battle
Conducting
Example
Female
Prejudice
Astounding
Dominated
Good Example
Utterly
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However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
Lara St. John / Violinist
All Things
Idiocy
Pathetic
Weeping
Accidentally
Photo
However
Photo Shoot
Poisoned
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Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.
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Art
Decades
Next
Performing
Who We Are
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Cards
Green
Orchestra
Player
Canadians
Contained
Mostly
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I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Drudgery
Grownups
Remember
Scales
Years
Life Music Always
Life Music Me
Naturally
Ear
Mostly
Remembering
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
Lara St. John / Violinist
Journey
Believe
Children
Example
Small Child
Although
Amazing Believe I Believe
Travelling
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