"Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above."

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#Music Quotes #Elderly Quotes #Three Quotes

“We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“Even on guitars I've had misfortunes. I never used to clip the strings on my guitar and then one day I accidentally poked my right eye with the E-string. My eye just wouldn't stop tearing up and I could barely keep it open. The doctor said I didn't do any major damage, but I had to wear a patch for a little while. I still have a tiny red mark on my eyeball from it; I'm still not sure it's the same.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!”
“The racing is no different if it is day or night except you see the lights and the sparks. You run the race the same. The day or night doesn't really affect the race.”
“This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse rock music and indie rock music in terms of popularity, which it has certainly gone on to do. But you know, this is the end of the 1980s, beginning of the '90s. The whole independent label thing has really evolved to this incredible point from the early '80s when we started, and there wasn't one record label at all, until a couple people started forming these small labels.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.”
“I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.”
“It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.”

Source : Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.263, The Floating Press

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