"I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs."

-- Patrick Carney

#Writing Quotes #Ears Quotes #Melody Quotes

“Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.”
“I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.”

Source : "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.
“I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.”

Source : Scott Weiland (2011). “Not Dead & Not for Sale: A Memoir”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.”
“Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.”
“New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.”
“A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.”

Source : Thomas Osborne Davis (1865). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174
“You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.”

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