"There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There are many imitators but very few genuine articles. There is so much more to playing than a fast blur of notes, like feeling and emotion from the soul. It's like punctuating a sentence and knowing when to lay back and not fill up all the space. Those are the things I tried to teach my son Tim when he began playing."

-- Merrell Fankhauser

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“You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".”
“Sex is one of God's gifts, just use it right.”
“My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's illegal. He's one of these kids. He's wrapped up in a red bullfighter's cape. And you've got to decide what we're gonna do with Superman.”
“Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (1989). “Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959”, Gateway Books
“Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldnâ€™t think that human inner values donâ€™t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.”
“There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.”

Source : "Will Ferrell, Adam McKay Celebrate 'The Other Guys'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 5, 2010.
“To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.”
“But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.”

Source : John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.254, Open Road Media

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