"When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love."

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Source : "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview With Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

Chris Isaak

#Dance Quotes #Couple Quotes #School Quotes

“If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?”

Source : Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
“Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.”

Source : "Bochas", Book III, Chapter VIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 125-27, 1922.
“I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.”
“I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant”
“A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.”
“Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.”
“There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.”
“Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'”

Source : "Beyond the Pale". Live album by Jim Gaffigan, www.npr.org. February 7, 2006.

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