"I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material."

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Source : FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Sep 23, 2015

Kate Clinton

#Years Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Given Quotes

“A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.”
“It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.”
“The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.”
“The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.”
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
“I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!”
“Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.”
“What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.”

Source : "Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments". Essay by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, en.wikiquote.org. 1753.

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