"There's times I've been quite nervous doing session work, such as when I'm asked to play the violin in a 'country and western' style or a 'gypsy' style. I'm not very good at that sort of playing at all. I think it's important as a session musician to have your own voice."

-- Ric Sanders

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.”
“I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.”
“Do not believe that man grows. No: he is born suddenly-a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood on to the ruggedness of the road.”
“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.”
“I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.”
“Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.”

Source : Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press
“There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.”
“My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.”

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