"My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act."

-- Juliana Hatfield

#Song Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Not Knowing Quotes

“So fully am I impressed with the vast importance and necessity of attaining what will be the object of my motion this night, that if, during the almost forty years that I have had the honour of a seat in parliament, I had been so fortunate as to accomplish that, and that only, I should think I had done enough, and could retire from public life with comfort, and the conscious satisfaction, that I had done my duty.”

Source : Charles James Fox (1815). “The speeches of the right honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons”, p.659
“An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!”
“The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.”
“There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.”
“That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially dangerous for spiritual teachers who only have contact with disciples or followers, who may live in an ashram.”
“If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.”

Source : Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway
“No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!”

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