"More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing."

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Source : "We Live Here: Live In Japan". DVD, March 12, 2013.

Pat Metheny

#Listening Quotes #Gone Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.”

Source : William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.114, A&C Black
“When you have confidence, you can do anything.”
“For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.”
“I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.”
“The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.”
“In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
“The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.”
“The power that flows from His name, the name Jesus, will be in proportion to our love for His Word.”

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