"I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Eleanor Friedberger

#Song Quotes #Trying Quotes #Musician Quotes

“It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.”
“You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.”
“The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.”
“Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature”
“Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.509, Ballantine Books
“Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.”
“There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.”
“I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.”

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