"I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song."

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Source : "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

Ted Leo

#Song Quotes #Performing Quotes

“Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.”
“Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.”
“You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.”
“When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong.”
“When you do your best, people notice.”
“Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.”
“Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.175
“The Transportation Security Administration has probably converted more people to Islam than any religious order in the last 100 years. It doesn't matter how you choose to self-identify or even if your religiosity is private; when you get to the airport you know how you're going to be treated based on your name. Possibly also because of the colour of your skin and the colour of your passport.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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