
“But you play that passage like it’s the -memory- of love. You’re so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That’s why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it’s not about joy, it’s about the memory of a joyful time that’s gone for ever.”
-Kazuo Ishiguro, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
For me, Musicians have a kind of power to recall or remember the things past that are worth remembering but also heartbreaking. Music has a kind of power to time travel your experience to something so valuable to you but also intensely hurt.

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