"At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us."

-- George Leonard

#Play Quotes #Roots Quotes #Rhythm Quotes

“Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.”
“I got famous in my 30s. I already had a real life and kids and responsibilities, like laundry and cleaning bathrooms. It's hard not be grounded when you have that. I think, if you get super-famous and everyone tells you you're wonderful when you're 12, it's probably a lot harder.”
“Our shadows are taller than ourselves.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.101, New Victoria Publishers
“Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.”
“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”
“suffering sweetens the reward”

Source : F. E. Higgins (2008). “The Bone Magician”, Pan Macmillan
“I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.”
“Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”

Source : "The Partly Cloudy Patriot". Book by Sarah Vowell, 2001.

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