"What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it."

-- Norah Jones

#Couple Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.”

Source : Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com
“I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”
“Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . . . Agitation, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring -- a race so moved must prevail.”

Source : Timothy Thomas Fortune (2008). “T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928”
“Even logical positivists are capable of love.”
“It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.”
“Visibility is not equality.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 20, 2017
“Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing... If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famousâ€”which is very different.”
“I never really was a grime artist. I'm just an artist.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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