"I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins."

-- Teddy Thompson

#Cousin Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Piano Quotes

“... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.”
“A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.”
“Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.”

Source : Krista Tippett (2016). “Becoming Wise Deluxe: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living”, p.108, Penguin
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
“To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.”
“There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.”
“... I think the idea of crossing over is the ultimate expression of being ... Maybe it's time to play rock and roll on disco ... maybe it's time to play heavy metal on R & B, things like that. Certainly culminating on things like Aerosmith doing the rap thing with Run DMC, which if they hadn't done that, or if Eddie hadn't played with Michael Jackson, or if I hadn't done "Hot Stuff", people would have said "You can't do that"”

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