"New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse..."

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Source : "Fats Domino Found in New Orleans" by Gina Serpe, www.eonline.com. September 1, 2005.

Harry Connick, Jr.

#Essence Quotes #New Orleans Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.”
“I just try to do the best job that I can, as an actor. Hopefully, that carries through. That's all I can do.”
“Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.”
“When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.47, VM eBooks
“The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.”
“Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits, to unravel all difficulties. What if it were suggested that the brick-built Pyramid of Hawara had been laid brick by brick by a single workman? Given time, this would not be beyond the bounds of possibility. But Nature, like the Pharaohs, had greater forces at her command to do the work better and more expeditiously than is admitted by Uniformitarians.”
“I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.”
“Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.”

Source : Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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