"I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart."

-- Adele

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes

“As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.”
“I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.”
“I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.”
“What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.”

Source : Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press
“His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.”

Source : William Julius Mickle, Tobias George Smollett (1822). “The Poems of Mickle, and Smollett”, p.93
“Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.”
“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.”

Source : Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.352, Ravenio Books

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