"Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happened (and every time thereafter), I consoled myself with the thought that sooner or later I'd make a solo record"

-- Rhett Miller

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!”
“I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.”
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”

Source : O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913)
“All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“King would get the ball off you without you even noticing he's the only defender in England who doesn't hold onto you, and he sometimes still gets the ball off my feet easily.”
“(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!”
“I've always wanted to sing country music.”
“Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.”

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