"The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs."

-- Jackson Browne

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“No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.”
“A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.”

Source : Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.41
“I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.”
“My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.”
“Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.”

Source : Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns (2000). “Jazz: a history of America's music”, Knopf
“He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee.”
“The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.”

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