"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."

-- Mose Allison

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“When the thunder rumbles, Now the age of gold is dead. When the dreams we've clung to Trying to stay young, Have left us parched and old instead. When my courage crumbles, When I feel confused and frail, When my spirit falters on decaying altars And my illusions fail -- I go on right then. I go on again. I go on to say I will celebrate another day. I go on. If tomorrow tumbles And everything I love is gone, I will face regret all my days, and yet I will still go on.”
“As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.”
“Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.”
“The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.”
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
“I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.”
“Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing
“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.”

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