"Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck."

-- Eddie Heywood

#Giving Up Quotes #Memorable Quotes #Play Quotes

“You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.”
“Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.”

Source : "An Interview with the Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers". Interview with Marissa Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2009.
“The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.”
“The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.”
“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”

Source : Kate DiCamillo (2009). “Because of Winn-Dixie”, p.159, Candlewick Press
“Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.”
“Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.”

Source : "2016 Race: Is looking for faith in a candidate the wrong way to approach the voting booth?" by Bruce Riley Ashford , Chris Pappalardo, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2016.
“Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.”

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