"On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there."

-- Stompin' Tom Connors

#Song Quotes #Vancouver Quotes #Albums Quotes

“The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.”

Source : Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press
“When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.”
“Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.”

Source : "Chasing an Impossible Dream" by Jim Abbott, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2015.
“Basketball was always something I felt I could dominate, something I could control.”
“The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.”
“The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback. A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed.”

Source : "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being".

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