"Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm."

-- Kirk Hammett

#Rhythm Quotes #Guitarist Quotes

“THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.23, Anza Publishing
“There's no perfect [date]. There's no agenda which has to be fulfilled. So really it's about the company and how well you get along.”
“Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.”
“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.”

Source : Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”
“My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.”
“I hadnâ€™t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others donâ€™t just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people donâ€™t have a sex life, itâ€™s not for some moral reason, itâ€™s just because theyâ€™re ugly. Once youâ€™ve said it, it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it.”
“One's emotions are intensified in Parisâ€”one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.”

Source : Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.146, Vintage
“I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.”

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