"My drummer right now, who was also the first drummer in Weeping Tile, Jon McCann, told me that [Hip drummer] Johnny Fay took drum lessons from [McCann's] dad, who taught a lot of the drummers in Kingston. He said that when he was in Grade 9, the Hip were the model; the goal was to get an agent and gig as much as possible."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Sarah Harmer

#Dad Quotes #Goal Quotes #Agents Quotes

“I don't get any anxiety. I don't because of two reasons. Number one, just breaking through it as a kid and finally getting past it was like okay, nothing's ever going to feel that scary again as that deafening silence of a joke not working. Any joke not working is not as bad as not being able to even try and get on stage.”
“Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.”
“Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.”
“So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...”
“It always pays off to focus on things that will make you feel proud. Remember this during every difficult decision you face.”
“Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.”
“If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off”

Source : Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
“My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.”

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