"My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB."

-- John Oates

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“I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.”

Source : David Rakoff (2015). “The Uncollected David Rakoff: Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish”, p.164, Anchor
“The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up in the same areas: music, art, math, visual, spatial skills, and calendar calculating, although calendar calculating probably isn't quite as prominent in that group. They tend to show up quite quickly, or sort of explode on the scene and they then tend to have an obsessive sort of forceful quality about them in the same way as savant skills. So they tend to show up in the same ways.”
“The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.63, The Floating Press
“It’s not easy to get rid of unwanted things.”
“I dont see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we cant be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.”
“I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.”
“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”

Source : Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.26, Tin House Books
“Art without color would lose much of its purpose.”

Source : Andrew Loomis (2018). “The Eye Of The Painter”, p.159, EDITORA BIBLIOMUNDI SERVIÇOS DIGITAIS LTDA

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