"Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music."

-- Lester Bowie

#Healing Quotes #Long Quotes #Important Quotes

“In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.”
“A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.”
“The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.”
“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
“I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.”
“I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.”

Source : "Soft (Drink) Power". Interview with Ian Bremmer, foreignpolicy.com. April 29, 2013.
“I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.”

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