"The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff."

-- Paul Weller

#Stuff Quotes #Instruments Quotes #Eastern Quotes

“A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.”
“The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.”
“I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the â€˜hollow reedâ€™â€¦”
“I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didnÂ´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.”
“It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward as time, channeled toward the sea. But up in the headwaters, a river isn't a point where you stand. In the beginnings of the river, you teeter on the edge of a hundred tiny watersheds where one drop of water is always tipping the balance from one stream to another. History changes with each tiny event, shaping an outcome that we can only fully grasp in hindsight. And that view changes as we move farther downstream.”
“A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.”
“If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.”

Source : Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167
“I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.”

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