"Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited."

-- Steve Earle

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Italian Quotes

“I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.”

Source : "1996 Guitar World Interview: Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains Discusses Songwriting and Band's New Self-Titled Album". Interview with Jeff Gilbert and Andy Aledort, www.guitarworld.com. November 15, 2011.
“If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.”

Source : WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”
“There are no secrets about England - they are searching for positives.”
“You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.”

Source : Esme Wynne Tyson (1949). “The Unity of Being”
“Pity is like eating mustard without beef.”
“Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.”
“If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?”

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