"I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very traditional format of country music, and he came up with something completely different"

-- Emmylou Harris

#Music Quotes #Country Quotes #Writing Quotes

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve," Neeve said. "Either you're his true love . . . or you killed him.”
“My work has changed my life. My work has saved my life. My life has changed my work.”
“It took me over a couple of months to find the right piece of transparent paper for a section near the centre, on the right side of the Garden of Nebuchadnezzar. When I did find it, it was on a bottle of my wife's toilet water.”
“Death is the only real elegance.”
“It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.”
“I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Men in Black”, p.123, Open Road Media
“Society is better off without certain people.”
“Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.”

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