"... by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough for me to feel justified in buying a real instrument. I bought a Gretsch with a De-Armond pickup on it and a second-hand Gibson amplifier; it looked like the one Charlie Christian used. I guess it was the same, although there were several models coming out at that time - this would be in I939."

-- Tal Farlow

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“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
“Who do you think's better looking people in the north or people in the south?”
“We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection”, p.143, eBookIt.com
“Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.”
“When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.”
“Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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