"With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters."

-- David Byrne

#Thinking Quotes #Age Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.”
“My attention is the most valuable resource I have. I can protect it with an information diet.”
“I do not love fiction, I love history.”
“My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?”
“The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.”
“... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.21, NYU Press
“A man's mind should be single to the glory of God in everything that he starts to accomplish. We should consider that of ourselves we can do nothing. We are the children of God. We are in darkness, only as God enlightens our understanding. We are powerless, only as God helps us. The work that we have to do here is of that nature that we cannot do it unless we have the assistance of the Almighty.”

Source : Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs
“You've got to pursue your dreams and it will get you to places that you can't even imagine.”

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