"Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar."

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Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

J. Robbins

#Jesus Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Guitar Quotes

“The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.”
“Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.”
“American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.”
“Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.”
“Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little neutral ambiguities. Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously. Let's live, you and I, as none have ever lived before.”

Source : Violet Keppel Trefusis, Mitchell Alexander Leaska (1991). “Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21”, Viking Adult
“Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.”
“Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.”
“My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.”

Source : Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.12, Random House

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