"I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people"
"Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen"
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Source: Dodie Smith (2012). “The Town in Bloom”, p.199, Hachette UK
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