"I don't find a lot of people actually saying things through music any longer. They are not trying to say anything with their music, they just want to make money with it. I think it's important to actually say something real, something meaningful, rather than just write some trash and try to sell it."

-- Robben Ford

#Meaningful Quotes #Real Quotes #Writing Quotes

“In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.”
“The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way. If the conductor listens well, the musicians listen each other better. The conductor can in effect impose a certain kind of listening for everybody.”
“It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.”

Source : Stacy Aumonier (1921). “The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories”
“Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.”
“People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.96, Vintage
“There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.”
“Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like.Â But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces all your life but never having seen one, never having seen the semi-translucent leaves curling in their own lettuce way, never having noticed what makes a lettuce a lettuce rather than a curly kale.”
“U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?”

Source : Haki R. Madhubuti (1970). “We walk the way of the New World”, Broadside Pr

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