"Sam Hellerman is a genius!"

-- Frank Portman

“My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.”
“I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.”

Source : Antonio Machado, Robert Bly (1983). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.109, Wesleyan University Press
“Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.”

Source : Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.
“The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.”

Source : Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). “The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton”
“Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isnâ€™t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You canâ€™t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.”

Source : Marianne Wiggins (2003). “Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster
“K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.”
“Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.”

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