hey alll! wow, I can't believe I've never posted in here, as I totally and completely ADORE this man :P
but anyway, I found this quote yesterday in one of my message board friends' profiles on AIM, and I got like, THE most intense shivers ever. And I wasn't sure where to post it, but I just felt like I needed to share it with people, in light of sep 11th and everything, so I figured I'd post it here:
""After September 11th, which happened in the midst of our show really beginning to pick up, we started to do performances again. Our album came out on September 11th, and I kept receiving letters from people saying that they had gone to buy the album that morning, or I even got an email from somebody who said that he had been late to work at the Towers because he went to buy the album. And I went to St. Patrick's that afternoon to light a candle, and there was a cop standing on the steps of St. Patrick's who turned to me and said, 'You're in tick, tick...BOOM!' And he started to sing a song from the show, he started singing 'See her Smile' to me, on the steps of St. Patricks... A few days later, we went back to work and I thought, 'This is the stupidest thing. How can we be doing this? The city's burning. How can we do this? You could still smell it.' And some of us were going to volunteer after the theatre every night, I was going to volunteer at Chelsea Piers, and there were those kids, sitting in the front row. The second performance back the sound board blew, and just... huge, it sounded like a bomb. Everybody screamed in the theatre. I was playing the piano on the song 'Why.' I couldn't breathe. I just pushed the piano away from me and the band took over and I just sat in the chair, and sang it, tears streaming down my face, looking at all of these young kids, looking up at me. The city's just been blown up around them, and I'm singing about.... you've gotta go on. I know things are bad, but you've gotta go on. This is why we do this."
-Raul Esparza"
yeah.. just.. I nearly cried. Just reading it.
by the way I apoligize if it was already posted or something, I'm kinda too lazy and busy with school work to look through and see if its there haha
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
Updated On: 9/11/06 at 08:43 PM
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