"The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to."

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Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

Gillian Welch

#Strong Quotes #Voice Quotes #People Quotes

“God gave us creation to enjoy it. I believe this is the reason we fight against injustice so that all of creation can experience the beauty of God's goodness and grace.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.”
“The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.”
“I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.”
“The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.”
“I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.”

Source : Song: Search And Destroy
“Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.”
“The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.”

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