"When I was writing some of songs for the record in Galapagos it was the feeling of being there I wanted to evoke more than anything. I remember hearing all the parts of the songs in my mind when I was walking around over the lava fields."

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Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

Jonathan Meiburg

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.”
“If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.”
“I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.”
“Who says i can't handle it? I can handle it," said Gregor obviously not handling it.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.”
“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014
“By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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