"I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there."

-- Leo Kottke

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“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
“My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.”

Source : Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.26, Vintage
“At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.”

Source : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
“My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.”
“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”
“Don't treat the dogs like people. Treat the dogs like dogs. They are better than people.”
“When they used to come to Tottenham we'd play Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Just to wind them up.”
“One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.”

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