"Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries."

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Alex Turner

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues”
“Disarmament requires trust.”

Source : Gustav Walter Heinemann (1972). “Gustav W. Heinemann: President of the Federal Republic of Germany”
“It's not that everything needs to have substance, but when nothing does then you know we're living in a bankrupt society, an artistically bankrupt society, and that's not okay. I think there's room for forms of entertainment that are very light and frivolous and fun, but when those forms of entertainment, forms of "art" if you will, become presented as something more than that, and are believed to be something more than that, then we've got a lot of problems.”

Source : "The Skinnie" Magazine, March 2010.
“I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.”
“This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.”
“May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.”
“Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
“I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.”

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