"I do notice that my songs fit all over the map, even in terms of the colloquialisms in them. The songs come out with their references intact, almost unheeded by me. It's like they existed somehow before they met me with their relationship to the tradition, and then they just end up coming through me at that moment because of my relationship to some certain kind of music that I've listened to in my life. I know that sounds a little bit woooey."

-- Mirah

#Song Quotes #Sound Quotes #Maps Quotes

“A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.”
“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.”
“Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.”

Source : Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.135, The Floating Press
“I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, "OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.”
“We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.”
“In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.”

Source : Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2015). “The Red Record: Top Crime Collections”, p.2, 谷月社
“Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.”

Source : Song: Queen Elvis II, Album: Eye

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