"Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea."

-- Conor Oberst

#Weed Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.”
“When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.”

Source : "Song: "Downtown" ("Downtown")". 1965.
“I'm okay with standing in my way and in turn allowing it to impede my progress, but I'm okay with the struggle of overcoming obstacles despite myself.”

Source : "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I never really know what I'm playing. I just follow what sounds good in my head and keep going.”
“It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.”
“Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. ... Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (1970). “Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung”
“Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.”
“I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.”

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