"A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial."

-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom Quotes #Boys Quotes #Memorial Quotes

“I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.”
“I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.”
“I'm trying to keep a good spin on it...But at some point you have to look at a guy like me and ask, 'How effective can I be if I'm not playing on a regular basis?'”
“If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.”
“The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.”
“For me, the tabletop is an easy way to eliminate the possibilities of chords, modes, melodies, and harmonies. It kind of confines you to this other sound sphere. I know anyone facing this kind of dilemma could always just find another instrument more suitable to their needs, such as a sampler or synthesizer, but I figured I have a guitar and amp so why not just use them?”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.”

Source : Paul Bowles (1955). “The Spider's House”
“It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.”

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