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Rhodes’s more memorable Tweets

19 September 2016

The only place in the world where I know what the f**k I’m doing, is sat in front of a piano. Which may be sad at 41.

But could be worse...

14 August 2017

Does anyone else have that thing where they love one musician so much it feels like you’re cheating on them when you listen to someone else?

13 March 2018

10 yrs ago I quit my job, had a mental breakdown, attempted suicide & spent almost a year in psychiatri­c hospitals. Since then, still mental, I’ve released 7 albums, 3 intl. bestsellin­g books (handed in 4th today) & and toured the world in my dream career. Everything is possible.

8 August 2018

Playing from memory is a personal choice. Whatever best serves *your* performanc­e is the only thing that matters. (Unless Chopin/beethoven etc wrote ‘play from memory, motherf****r’ at the top of their scores. Which AFAIK they didn’t).

6 December 2018

Music, art, love, nature, books, basically *anything* that helps convince me that we do in fact deserve this miraculous gift of life & this astonishin­g world. Because witnessing the levels of hatred, xenophobia & divisivene­ss in world politics right now screams out that we don’t.

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