"From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me."

-- Cat Power

#Country Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”
“What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.”

Source : Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”
“I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.”
“It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.”

Source : "Kirchner and the Berlin street" edited by Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, (p. 36), 2008.
“Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.”
“Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.”
“I haven't shaved my private parts, but I dyed them once for a laugh! They looked more ginger, though!”
“A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.”

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