"I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational."

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Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Cecil Williams

#Soul Quotes #Musician Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.”
“I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody?”
“I felt like I already knew how to race by the time I was four. I was always at the race track with my dad. I watched him race thousands of laps in a sprint car standing on top of a trailer watching him, getting down and cleaning the mud off his car. That's just what I grew up doing.”
“If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact.”
“Being able to â€˜think out of the boxâ€™ presupposes you were able to think in it.”
“It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.”
“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”
“I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.”

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