"I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys."

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Source : "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 8, 2015.

Donnie Fritts

#Writing Quotes #Nashville Quotes #Old Buildings Quotes

“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”

Source : Attributed in "Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995" by Charles W. Tolman, (p. 31), 1996.
“I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - THESE PEOPLE ARE COCKROACHES and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark.”

Source : "Retrial begins of BNP leaders accused of stirring racial hatred" by Martin Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.
“I really want to get the word out that I am still relevant and have something to say.”
“He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.”

Source : Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.209
“Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.”

Source : "The Iron Man of India". Book by S. Jaysbee, p. 57, 1951.
“I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.”
“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsâ€”a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earringâ€”with immense, even startling power.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories”, p.25, Vintage
“The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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