"I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song."

-- Amanda McBroom

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“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”

Source : US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.
“Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or LautrÃ©amont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.”
“'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.”
“I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.”
“Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.”
“It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.”
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”
“That's very clear today. No, you wouldn't, respectfully. How exactly did [Republicans] win? How exactly did we win? I'd like to know. Because I sacrificed the last four months of my life to do it, excuse me, and we did it. And we did it by looking at the schedule and looking at, yes, the electoral map of 270 because that's how you win the presidency.”

Source : Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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