{"id":706,"date":"2008-11-02T05:42:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T05:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/11\/02\/quote-of-the-week-3\/"},"modified":"2011-05-23T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T09:07:28","slug":"quote-of-the-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/11\/02\/quote-of-the-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">In any normal week, this would have been the easy winner of \u201cquote of the week.\u201d At the end of my \u201cwords on music\u201d session with the Gulf Coast Symphony, one of the audience paid me this rather unusual compliment. I\u2019d sort of assumed that the folks that come to these things are the real hard-core music lovers, so I wasn\u2019t expecting this- <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">\u201cI really like the Words on Music sessions, because it helps me follow the various intonations of the pieces in concert, instead of just sitting there thinking \u201cOh god, when is it going to end, when is it going to end?\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">I spent the next 24 hours thinking I\u2019d misheard her, but then I saw her after the concert and she said\u2026. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">\u201cYou did good. You know, it doesn\u2019t have to just be unbearably boring- it can be passionate. Or unbearably boring\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">I hope she had us in the passionate column\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">However, this quote, a description of me from a ten year-old African American\u00a0in-law of the person in question, has trounced all contenders for quote of the week- <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">\u201cYou\u2019re not white&#8230;. 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