"I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it."

-- Eddie Van Halen

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“There's part of me that is a strict materialist.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Jacob was simply a perpetually happy person, and he carried this happiness with him like an aura, sharing it with whoever was near him. Lika an earthbound sun, whenever someone was within his gravitational pull, Jacob warmed them. It was natural, a part of who he was.”
“Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.”
“When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.”
“Nothing is inevitable with relationships.”
“My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.”

Source : "William Trevor: the keen-eyed chronicler" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.
“At SAP, we see a dream for a simpler world, for a simpler SAP, and for a simpler customer experience.”
“Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters. We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.”

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