"Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play."

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Source : Song: Turn The Page

Jon English

#Play Quotes #Sweat Quotes #Giving Quotes

“After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.”
“There are worse prisons than words.”
“One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.”
“If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.”
“He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!”
“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”
“Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.”
“Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.”

Source : "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.

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