"You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it."

-- Leslie Ford

#Long Quotes #West Quotes #Dough Quotes

“Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it).”
“More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.”
“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.”

Source : "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.
“Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.”
“I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.”
“Where are your pants, son?”
“I'm merely a fan of fashion from high end to streetwear, from Nike to Comme des Garcons.”
“That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation...it enhances all your five senses.”

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