"There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil."

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Peter Gabriel

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“I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.”
“Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.”
“In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.”
“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.”
“My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.”
“Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.”

Source : Thomas A. Bailey (1969). “Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey”, p.15, Ardent Media
“It doesnâ€™t much matter whether people care or donâ€™t care. What matters is that people change the world.”
“I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.”

Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.156, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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