"Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place."

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Source : "Song: 'Out Seeing The Fields' ('Out Seeing The Fields')". 2007.

Dawud Wharnsby Ali

#Smell Quotes #Faces Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything that could be said in books would work a cure. If the floors of boarding-houses, and the decks of steam-boats, and the carpets of the Capitol, do not sicken the Americans into a reform; if the warnings of physicians are of no avail, what remains to be said? I dismiss the nauseous subject.”
“It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.”
“Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.”
“I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.”
“Man is more than half of nature's treasure.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.5
“I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.”
“It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.”
“Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?”

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