"music / I let it wake me / take me / Spin me around and make me / Uh get down."

-- Eloise Greenfield

“I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.”
“Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.”
“I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.”
“I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.”
“If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line, a year, even five, those are the ones you put in your bag and you take to the studio. You come to realize, the ones that don't make it, they were only meant to live for that moment in your notebook or on the 4-track-and plenty of songs never get any farther than the 4-track.”
“I'm an affectionate person.”
“There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.”
“We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.”

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