"Music came first and I started to jam with people I couldn't communicate in their language. Then, because I could make friends thanks to music, they started to talk to me. Then I started to learn English."

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Hiromi

#People Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Jam Quotes

“All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.”

Source : Tea and Sympathy, act 1 (1953)
“Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.”

Source : Edward Conze (1979). “Politics, people and places”
“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.”

Source : The Atlantic Community Quarterly, Volume 14-15, p. 200, 1976-1978.
“I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.”
“The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war.”
“Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.”

Source : "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.
“We need to play each others instruments.”
“The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.”

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