"Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor."

-- Ray Charles

#Years Quotes #Honor Quotes #Music Is My Life Quotes

“In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.”
“Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.”
“All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.”
“But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all.”
“We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.”
“Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.”

Source : David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried (2010). “ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever”, p.19, Random House
“Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.”

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