"When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life."

-- Jesse Harris

#Writing Quotes #Hands Quotes #Tunes Quotes

“There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.”
“When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.”

Source : "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.
“That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.”
“How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.”
“It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.”
“He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.”
“I'm rubber and you're glue," I told Satan, " and everything that bounces of me sticks to you.”
“When in doubt, scribble.”

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