"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."

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Source : William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

William Christopher Handy

#Falling In Love Quotes #Mind Quotes #Musical Quotes

“I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.”

Source : "Sondre Lerche is more than 'a Bacharach-obsessed indie kid from Norway'" by Derk Richardson, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2004.
“If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”
“You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.”
“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.”
“Unless we are really trusting Him, where does the praise come in? This peace the Savior gives is not an artificial one. It is so deep that even the devil can't disturb it. You can't hear things in the Spirit while you have any turmoil or fear in you. You can't take a shade of fear into the presence of God.”
“I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.”
“I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can I be sure when she has said nothing? Is this youthful vanity? I wish in some ways that it were. But I am so convinced that I barely need question myself. This conviction brings me no joy.[â€¦]I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive.”

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