"My dad's a musician, and he taught me how to play when I was three, I think, so I've been playing ever since. It's something I've always done. And when you're really young, and you play music for people, people get really excited, so you get this inner sense that you are good at it, even though I've always been really not good at it."

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Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com

#Dad Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.”

Source : "The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: With Twenty-five of His Sermons".
“I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for example, that LA was absurd, worthy of ridicule and contempt. Most people seem to describe Los Angeles as elementally despicable, or as someplace that requires an apology.”
“You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.”
“As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. â€˜If you are buried under a flamboyant tree, â€˜ I said, â€˜your soul is lifted up when it flowers. Everyone wants that.â€™ She shook her head but she did not move or touch me.”
“Your body hears everything your mind says.”
“Pop music often deals with subject matter like breakups, or you have songs that are like, "I will love you forever," or "you're so hot right now," or "I really feel you," or "We should be together." There aren't that many songs that are like, "I just walked into the room and now I have nothing to say because I feel so awkward because I fancy you so much." There's not as many songs that deal with that awkward bit about love; about how you can really have such a huge crush on someone that actually is completely disabling.”
“But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.”

Source : Stafford Cripps's Speech in the House of Commons opposing the National Government's decision to expand the Royal Air Force, api.parliament.uk. July 30, 1934.
“The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.”

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