"I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument."

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Source : "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Ralph Denyer, 1992.

George Benson

#Teaching Quotes #Harmony Quotes #Theory Quotes

“It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]”
“When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.”
“Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood which again means that many trees saved and more environmental damage prevented. It is calculated that if these 73 million animals were to be replaced, we would need 7.3 million tractors at the cost of 2.5 lac each which would amount to an investment of 180,000 crores. In addition 2 crore, 37 lakh and 50 thousand tonnes of diesel which would mean another 57,000 crore rupees. This is how much we owe these animals, and this is what we stand to lose by killing them.”
“One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.”
“As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well.”
“Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.”
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.”
“Markets really matter. Because the bigger the market, the more targets there are for the missile to hit.”

Source : "Founders and Heat Seeking Missiles" by Josh Kopelman, www.businessinsider.com. August 17, 2010.

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