"For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source"

-- Duke Robillard

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“I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.”
“Being willing makes you able.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.28, Penguin
“A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.”
“The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.”
“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.”
“I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.”
“Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read.”
“I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”

Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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