Percy Grainger famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.
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All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.
-- Percy Grainger -
The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.
-- Percy Grainger
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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Do not make a stingy sandwich; pile the cold cuts high; so you should see salami coming through the rye.
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My scalp tingled like Christmas candy on a cold tongue.
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I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.
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I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.
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