"I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way."

-- Madeleine Peyroux

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“The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.”
“Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.”

Source : "On the Theory of Light and Colors," Philosophical Transactions (1802)
“If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!"”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.”
“One truly understands only what one can create.”
“The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.”

Source : Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham (2003). “Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts”, p.158, University of Toronto Press
“Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“Confidence and hope do more good than physic.”

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