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Alasdair MacLean
"John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic." --
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
Alasdair MacLean
#Voice Quotes
#Forever Quotes
#Mourning Quotes
“I'm a bit of a goofball; I don't have a lot of censors and I don't have a lot boundaries and I'm trying to remember that the world is watching.”
“It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.”
“I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.”
“Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.”
“they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.”
“She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.”
Source : Nevil Shute (1991). “A Town Like Alice”
“I'm not against gay people.”
“I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.”
