"Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Eyvind Kang

#Song Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.”
“If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesusâ€™ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.”
“Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.”

Source : William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.208
“I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.”
“Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.”
“All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.”
“A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.”
“It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.”

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