"I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?"

-- Kevin Eubanks

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
“My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by us. The people not only opened the doors of their homes to lend us a hand, but they opened their hearts to us. I learned that without the people, we could not survive and I knew that I owed them everything.”
“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”
“If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.”
“You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.”
“Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.”

Source : "I've never been an ingenue" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2008.
“Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.”

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