"I do like the old versions of our songs - there are good things in them, but I think that the good things that happen in the new ones kind of outweigh that. The murkiness of the first version of the record was not really what we'd intended. It has sort of a dream-like quality, but I feel like that has been preserved in other ways in the newer versions, as well as the bonus disc."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Jonathan Meiburg

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Quality Quotes

“What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.460
“Every day, I find countless opportunities to decide whether I will obey God and demonstrate my love for Him or try to please myself or the world system. God is waiting for my choices.”

Source : Bill Bright (2003). “The Journey Home: Finishing with Joy”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty.”

Source : Speech at Christmas Celebration for Members of Inter-religious Organization by Reverend William Goh, www.catholic.sg. December 29, 2016.
“I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.Â I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself.Â I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: â€˜Excuse me, it was all a dream,â€™ and by that time I may have found one who will say: â€˜Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.â€™”
“A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.”
“How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven.”
“God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.”

Source : Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet
“Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.”

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