"My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it."

-- David Crosby

#Song Quotes #Father Quotes #Writing Quotes

“There might be some of them that don't care. To me, it's important that my fans know how much I appreciate them.”
“What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.”
“You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.”

Source : William Lloyd Garrison, Bruce Rogers (1905). “The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison”
“The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.”
“The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.”
“This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?”
“Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.”

Source : Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.3399, Titus Books
“Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.”

Source : "Arabella Weir: I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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