"I mean if it wasn't for Earl Scruggs, guys like me wouldn't be doing what we're doing. I mean, he's changed so many people's lives, honestly. I was thinking about all the thousands of people that live in Nashville, like myself, that there's no reason a guy from New York would end up down there if it wasn't for the sound of Earl Scruggs' banjo coming over the airwaves and just changing my life."

-- Earl Scruggs

#New York Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.”
“Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.”
“Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.”
“The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?”
“They say not to look back, but if youâ€™re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?”
“People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.”
“Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?”

Source : "Pippa Middleton joins the party" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2008.
“Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.”

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