"This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term."

-- Thomas D'Arcy McGee

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“You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.”
“Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly from the source into song mode. As a composer, it may be fortuitous. What I feel is what you get.”
“I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.”

Source : "It's good being Ricky Skaggs these days". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 26, 2012.
“Driving to class with him. All I could think about was that it had been three days since I'd touched his face AND HE SEEMED so fine. I said, to him "you seem like you didn't miss a beat." He looked at me and said Sabrina, I've missed so many beats, I've MADE A RhytHM.”
“That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.”
“One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.”

Source : Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”
“How dangerous can false reasoning prove!”
“Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.”

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