"New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to."

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Source : "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview With Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.

Justin Townes Earle

#New York Quotes #Artist Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.”
“Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for instrumental thinking. But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.”

Source : Stephen Holmes (1996). “The Anatomy of Antiliberalism”, p.217, Harvard University Press
“My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.”
“When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA. And before that I thought that I would own a snake farm.”
“John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.”
“Don't be afraid to pile on the midi rings! I like to play around with metals and pair delicate rings with chunkier ones.”
“White people scare the crap out of me.”
“It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.”

Source : George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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