“Throat surgery left her with a masculine voice, but the doyenne of the Kirana gharana turned it into an advantage through years of hard work.”
Deepa Ganesh, in "Gangubai's search for perfection."
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Indian singer 1913–2009Related quotes
In the self-interview on Stop Making Sense
“The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 5 (p. 51).
Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 15, “Ososolyeh” (pp. 220-221)
De la supériorité des mœurs sur les lois (1831) Oeuvres complètes, vol. VIII, p. 286 https://books.google.de/books?id=yrMFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA286&dq=meilleures.
Original text:
Les meilleures lois ne peuvent faire marcher une constitution en dépit des mœurs ; les mœurs tirent parti des pires lois. C'est là une vérité commune, mais à laquelle mes études me ramènent sans cesse. Elle est placée dans mon esprit comme un point central. Je l'aperçois au bout de toutes mes idées.
1830s
Context: The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
“A loss doesn’t turn into a lesson unless we work hard to make it so.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
On Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson, p. 59.
Other writings, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (1960)