"The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play."

-- Tony Visconti

#Son Quotes #Guitar Quotes #Years Quotes

“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”
“Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.”

Source : Howard Frank Mosher (2014). “Waiting for Teddy Williams”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
“Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.”
“Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us via the male members of our family.”
“People like to have fun and they like to laugh. And when you laugh, it's much easier to convince people and they laugh with you, rather than being angry. And I think laughter's always nice and I've always liked it.”

Source : Source: edition.cnn.com
“Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.”
“The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.”

You may also like:

Brian Eno
Musician
David Bowie
Musician
Gail Ann Dorsey
Musician
Gloria Jones
Singer
Marc Bolan
Singer-songwriter
Mick Ronson
Guitarist
Robert Fripp
Guitarist
Steven Morrissey
Singer
Carlos Alomar
Guitarist