"It's tough to make music and make it your own, and not have somebody call it something you don't agree with but can't control. Sometimes the press doesn't realize how much power they have and how they can shape somebody's life. I think there's a lot of people just trying to make music and get their art out there, and their heads get f**ked by the press calling them this or calling them that."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Jim James

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.”
“Both sin and sickness came into the world through the fall of the human race. Therefore, we must look for the healing of both in the savior of the human race. God is as willing to heal believers as He is to forgive unbelievers. Know this; if He was merciful enough to forgive you when you were unconverted, He is merciful enough to heal you now that you are in His family!”
“I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.”

Source : Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com
“We have the power to chose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.”
“In fact, when Bernard [Leach] would be called away to go up to London for something and we'd be living alone for a couple of days, we would dig into the storage areas in the house and we'd get out all the pots that we might not see in the course of our daily life, because we weren't using them in the house on a steady basis. But we found some fantastic pots in there tucked away, and we could look at them and examine them and handle them.”
“Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.”

Source : Aubrey Thomas DE VERE (1842). “The Waldenses, Or the Fall of Rora: a Lyrical Sketch. With Other Poems”, p.295
“If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.”
“It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures all over the world. It may not be so obvious that these same plants are often incorporated into the coming-of-age ceremonies of these various societies.”

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