"[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned."

-- Mose Allison

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“I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. I wonder if there should be some kind of anarchy.”
“Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.”
“It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.”
“I originally passed on Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.”
“In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get their way, grave sites will be taxed $5 dollars - per grave, per year - for eternity. In Colma the dead outnumber the living by a ratio of roughly 1000-to-1, including such notables as: Wyatt Earp, Levi Strauss, and William Randolph Hearst. And they, apparently, haven't paid their fair share. For liberals, when it comes to taxes . . . nothing is sacred.”
“The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.”

Source : Samuel Hahnemann (1982). “Organon of medicine”, J P Tarcher
“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”
“The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.”

Source : F.R. Scott (2013). “Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground: The Poetry of F.R. Scott”, p.19, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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