"Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story."

-- Charles Hazlewood

#Trying Quotes #Lenses Quotes #Phrases Quotes

“The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.”
“You shouldnâ€™t say I canâ€™t until youâ€™ve tried.”
“Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.”
“Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go way back, to the late 1920s for example, the times of the Great Depression. Or think of the United Kingdom in the 1970s, when the International Monetary Fund had to help the country out with a dramatic rescue operation. Up until the Greek crisis, that was the last time that the IMF was forced to intervene to such an extent in Europe.”
“The dangerous glorification of the nation state, and the baiting of minorities that goes along with it, releases an anti-democratic energy.”
“To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.”
“Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.”

Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.137
“Woman is woman's natural ally.”

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