I quoted Barbara Cook on an earlier post. Here it is again -- reminding my students to take the risk and explore the safety of the most dangerous places.
"If you can get to the point where you are ready to use every joy, every death, every lover who has left you...If you are willing to explore that within the song, you cannot be wrong." And especially when her disjointed sentence told a student, "The very place where safety lies for us is the same that seems most dangerous, and the sharing - the courage to let people really, really get into what life is into -- and sets it free."
