"To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life."

-- James Taylor

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“It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.”
“The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.”
“Originality is the art of concealing your sources.”
“The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”
“That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.”

Source : John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”
“He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.”
“If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.”
“Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.”

Source : "Ray Charles: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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