"It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,"

-- Paul Desmond

“My parents traveled a lot, so my grandparents practically raised me. My grandmother and I really bonded in the kitchen. She's this amazing southern cook, and I would always help her - whether it was cracking eggs or stirring the green beans. It takes me back there.”

Source : "Lady Antebellum Celebrate 'Sweeter Times' on New Album". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. January 26, 2010.
“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.”
“If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.”
“Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.”
“I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.”
“His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.”
“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”
“The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.”

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