"I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God."

-- Smokey Robinson

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.”

Source : 1988 Oscar and Lucinda, ch.43,'Leviathan'.
“Jesus Christ has now done all He can do, and He waits at the right hand of the His Father, until you and I as sons of God become manifest and make this world His footstool. He is waiting for us to say, "Jesus, we have made the kingdoms of this world the Kingdom of our God, and are ruling and reigning in your world."”
“My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an important and legitimate enterprise. What that meant was sitting around the dinner table from a really early age with people from all different backgrounds who believed in God. When I was reporting in the wake of September 11th in Iraq and elsewhere, I felt I had the capacity to talk to people whose beliefs might sound outlandish to more secular journalists. I felt like I could be a translator between those two worlds.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“You get the most out of what you need the least.”
“Baudelaire's L'HÃ©autontimoroumÃ©nos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.”
“Don't worry about those who talk behind your back, they're behind you for a reason.”
“Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.”
“Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it...”

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