"What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing."

-- Justin Townes Earle

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Sound Quotes

“This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.”

Source : Frances E. Willard (2017). “A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way”, p.18, Read Books Ltd
“Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.”

Source : Claude Brown, Nathan McCall (2012). “Manchild in the Promised Land”, p.394, Simon and Schuster
“What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is athesim, tomorrow will be religion.”

Source : "German socialist philosophy".
“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.”
“He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic . . . muscular.”
“A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.”
“November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.”
“Its not who you love.Â Its how.”

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