"Sometimes, all you can do... is sing."

-- Cissy Houston

#Sometimes Quotes #Can Do Quotes

“The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.”
“I do not innovate. I transmit.”
“We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.”
“There's a gang of boys on bikes blocking the road ahead. They've got their hoods up, cigarettes shielded. The sky's a really strange colour and there's hardly anyone else about. I slow right down. "What shall I do?" "Reverse," Zoey says. "They're not going to move." I wind down the window. "Oi!" I yell "Move your arses!" They turn languid, shift lazily to the edge of the road and grin as I blow kisses at them. Zoey looks stunned, "What's got into you?" "Nothing- I just haven't learned reversing yet.”

Source : Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books
“It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.”

Source : "The Cambridge Companion to Debussy". Book by Simon Trezise, 2003.
“I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.”
“There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.”
“I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.”

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