"In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence"

-- Ry Cooder

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“It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.”

Source : Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz
“I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
“Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span â€” pedestrian-only â€” was lined by monumental statues of saints.”
“When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.”
“I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.”

Source : Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2008.
“Once we repossess a sense of our own holiness, we will recover the sense of the holiness of the world... Only in this way will we once again become aware that our destiny and the destiny of nature are one and the same.”

Source : Philip Sherrard (1992). “Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology”, Sophia Perennis
“I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally I was under the misapprehension that philosophers are trying to figure out what is true, and that contemporary philosophers are mainly trying to figure out what is true about the mind. Of course Hume and Plato were trying to do that, hence my misapprehension.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive.”

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