"I never want to be preachy in my music, just share thoughts, things I have learned."

-- Lisa Germano

#Share Quotes #I Have Learned Quotes

“Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable...”
“The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.”

Source : James Lane Allen, William K. Bottorff (1967). “A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield
“The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.”
“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

Source : Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
“Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.”
“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of oneâ€™s life.”
“Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!”

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