"Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing."

-- Jo Stafford

#Art Quotes #Confused Quotes #Songwriting Quotes

“It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.”
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”
“Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.”
“Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.”
“A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.”
“The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.”
“God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.”
“To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit”

Source : John Naughton (2015). “A Brief History of the Future”, p.83, Hachette UK

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