"We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise."

-- Robert Wyatt

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“As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.”

Source : Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.
“To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.
“He gets a little hot sometimes, but that's fine. It shows he wants to win...he fires at pins. I'd rather have someone miss some cuts who's shooting at pins and playing aggressively.”
“My dream would be to be on a show that shoots in New York, because I live here, and then I could walk to work.”
“There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which is tighter than the prison of hawa (desire) and there is no bond/fetter more strong than the bond of desire. How, then, will a heart which is captivated, imprisoned and fettered travel unto Allah and the Home of the Hereafter?”
“I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.”
“You can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you think you are unique, you will come back to something that existed before you were doing what you are doing.”
“The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.”

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