"I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Anna Meredith

#Trying Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I prefer lump charcoal over briquettes but I do use both for different reasons and different recipes and sometimes I combine them both when I really want the woodsy aroma from the lump charcoal and long, even heat from the briquettes.”
“We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money.”
“The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.”
“What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.”
“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.”

Source : "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (pp. 79-80), 1993.
“Politics is a blood sport.”

Source : Quoted in Jennie Lee My Life with Nye (1980).
“I will remember all the days at the Olympics.”
“It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.”

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