"There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs."

-- Sonny Burgess

#Song Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Honor Quotes

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
“Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?â€ â€œWell I would if youâ€™d let me finish,â€ he grumbled.”
“...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?”
“Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.”
“I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.”

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“Tell me something I can dance to.”
“Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity.”
“It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.”

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