"Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have."

-- Joanne Harris

#Wine Quotes #Son Quotes #Fire Quotes

“To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.”
“Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.”

Source : "Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. June 18, 2014.
“As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.”
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
“I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.”
“We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If you want to do amazing things with your life...”
“But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.”

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