"You see, pops, that's the kind of talk that's ruining the music. Everyone's trying to do something new, no one trying to learn the fundamentals first. All them young cats playing their wierd chords. And what happens? No one's working."

-- Louis Armstrong

#Cat Quotes #Trying Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.”

Source : "Bertiespeak: Blasts From the Past". www.independent.ie. July 05, 2007.
“I've always hid behind the music despite the fact that I have a huge personality. I'm thrilled that the music is bigger than me and will outlive and outlast me. It frees me up to take risks.”
“One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much more. Fiction doesn't necessarily reveal what it's doing with rhythm and sound and patterning.”

Source : "5×5: Brian Evenson". Interview with Hayden Bennett, believermag.com. January 15, 2015.
“I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.”

Source : "Q & A: Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum". Interview with Jerry Fink, lasvegassun.com. April 22, 2009.
“In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.”
“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”
“Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro,”
“I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but itâ€™s over, and Iâ€™m not going to think about it.”

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