"In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money."

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Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

Glen Hansard

#Art Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Law Quotes

“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.”
“It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.”
“Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.238
“I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.”
“When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.”
“Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.”
“Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly.”
“When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.”

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