"I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance."

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Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 14, 2009.

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.”

Source : Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.
“I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after,”
“Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.”
“He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.”

Source : 1623 The Bondman, act1, sc.3.
“Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.”
“Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.”
“Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant”
“beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water”

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