"I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly."

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Source : "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.

Hamilton Leithauser

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Singing Quotes

“A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.”
“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”
“I don't have kids, but I do understand family, and I understand how precious family is.”
“He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.”
“... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]”
“It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.”
“To line only for some unknown future is superficial.”
“There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.”

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