"I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar."

-- Mick Ronson

#Guitar Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.”
“I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.”
“True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.”
“For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.”
“Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.”
“If you want to write a love song, you need to not try to write it for a particular person in a particular situation. It needs to be vague, otherwise you're going to fall into trap after trap of trying to rhyme with somebody's name. Keep it vague.”
“I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.”
“I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.”

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