"Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is."

-- Michael Jackson

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“When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.”
“donâ€™t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! Thereâ€™s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!”
“I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.”
“Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry...”

Source : Ned Sublette (2008). “The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square”, p.229, Chicago Review Press
“Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.”
“It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.”
“Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: "Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is "yes". I'm always very conscious of that.”
“Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.”

Source : Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.43, Shambhala Publications

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