"I still get stage fright every time. I also feel very, very sleepy about a minute before we go on. Like I feel like I'm going to fall asleep. I can't explain it. It's sort of like, "Where's the energy going to come from to play this show?" Then all of a sudden you step up and there it is, it's like it's waiting for you."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Jonathan Meiburg

#Fall Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Energy Quotes

“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 29, 2011
“Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!”
“A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.”
“The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.”
“The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it.”
“Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part.”
“My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.”

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