"You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like Tony Bennett, who is my senior, and still can hit those high notes and still can belt it out as good as he ever did. So it must be something about the voice that's unlike the rest of the muscles in your body."

-- Todd Rundgren

#Senior Quotes #Voice Quotes #Body Quotes

“I really love a lot of Japanese music, like Ryuichi Sakamoto and this guy I got really into, Tatsuro Yamashita. When I was a little younger, I thought synthesizers meant Kraftwerk, cold, robotic, weird, Autobahn. But these guys are having a lot of fun on these things. Sometimes. Sometimes it's very somber. They could go either way.”
“Curiosity is the essence of human existence.”
“Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.”
“Some things can’t be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.”

Source : Linda Wisdom (2008). “50 Ways to Hex Your Lover”, p.124, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war.”
“To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.”

Source : Percy Wells Cerutty (1964). “Middle-distance running”
“My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.”

Source : Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.
“Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.”

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