"I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition."

-- Thelonious Monk

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“We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.”
“It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.”

Source : Daniel Taylor (1986). “The myth of certainty: the reflective Christian and the risk of commitment”, W Pub Group
“The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; I loved that book.”
“Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure. For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force Of mere imagination.”
“The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything viable by the music industry. I figured that this might be another shot at the industry looking at the possibilities of house music and giving it a little bit more legitimacy than what they give it. It's a host of different things, but it's something that I needed to say musically.”

Source : Interview with Ron Slomowicz, notabledance.com. August 31, 2004.
“The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.”
“I'm naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.”
“For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.”

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