"The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning."

-- Joan Baez

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Protest Quotes

“For 15 years, I've been playing the same character-which is myself-and I'm bored with 'myself'.”
“It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?”
“Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at the clouds. Soon, the child learns that his own hands cannot reach the sky, but his hands are not the limit of his potential. For the human brain observes, considers, understands, and adapts. Locked within the mind is infinite possibility.”
“I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.”

Source : Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books
“Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 28, 2014
“Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.”
“I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity â€” not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour â€” but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.”

Source : Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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