"I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it."

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Don Johnson

#Writing Quotes #Guitar Quotes #Play Quotes

“From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What the Constitution says is that these judgments are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority. Technology expands the capacity to choose; and it denies the potential of this revolution if we assume the Government is best positioned to make these choices for us.”
“I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock.”
“27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers”
“The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.”

Source : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”
“I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.”
“You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.”
“We do not exist for ourselves.”

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