"My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

David Crosby

#Song Quotes #Schedules Quotes

“Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”
“The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.”
“Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.”
“The most important thing is not to allow yourself to find an excuse that will let you not to do something you really want. Doing compromises makes people weaker.”
“I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.”
“I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.”
“Climbing had captured my soul.”

Source : Lincoln Hall (2008). “Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest”, p.19, Penguin
“Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.”

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