"That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was."

-- Cab Calloway

#Country Quotes #Nobody Knows Quotes #Company Quotes

“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”
“I'm like a junkie for writing.”
“If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.”
“In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.”

Source : "It's not poetry, it's a midlife crisis". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2001.
“"Alleluia" song is a street hymn in the sense that it's all about culture.It's almost a juxtaposition of the prayers of the world and the prayers of the culture and how we sometimes put an "amen" after crazy things. So it's really just that tension between madness and simplicity.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.”
“And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.”
“From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch.”

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