"I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan."

-- Ikue Mori

#Japan Quotes #Musician Quotes

“That taught me how to work harder. I learned all about mental toughness on the practice field. If things weren't working out for me in high school, in college, early in my pro career, my solution was always to work harder and internalize. That way, whenever I got an opportunity, I was always prepared. See, there are a lot of guys who are all talk. They say they want to work harder and be the best, but they never pay the price. I love paying the price.”
“In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.”
“There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.”
“I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”
“If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.”

Source : "A Mission Gone Wrong" by Mattathias Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. January 06, 2014.
“Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.”
“Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.”
“There's the kind of love where being around someone makes you feel energized. Just being around them gives you more energy than less.”

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