"I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Bela Fleck

#Mistake Quotes #Home Quotes #Guitar Quotes

“And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.”
“There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.”
“I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.”
“Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him, thereby depending on that being who is still himself - yet who in this sense creates Him. Here we have a vision which has never been professed outside of a few errant knights of mysticism. To profess this essential bipolarity of the divine essence is not to confuse creator and created, creature and creation. It is to experience the irrevocable solidarity between the Fravarti and its Soul, in the battle they undertake for each other`s sake.”

Source : Henry Corbin (1998). “The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy”, p.223, North Atlantic Books
“I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.”
“Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
“I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.”

Source : "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.
“To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.”

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