"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."

-- Lionel Hampton

#Drumming Quotes #Way Quotes

“Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.”
“Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.”
“For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.”
“Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.”
“If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.”
“A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.”
“I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.”
“A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.”

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