"Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music."

-- Wyclef Jean

#War Quotes #Father Quotes #School Quotes

“His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . . that's too much vibrato. It's like putting bright red lipstick on a beautiful woman.' I always thought it was funny that when you broke a musical rule-like accenting a weak beat-he would turn his head away from you sharply, almost as though he were in pain. It's like you just slapped him in the face by being unmusical.”
“What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.”
“I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.”
“I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.”
“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?”
“I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.”
“When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.”
“If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'”

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