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“With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a gr...”
“A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the...”
“It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.”
“I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.”
“Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.”
“After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps mo...”
“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”
“There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we're close to the end of the age.”
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”
“You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
“We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.”
“There are so many opportunities where people are thirsting: young people who are preparing for Confirmation, young adults who are searching, people of every age. There's a great thirst, I think, of...”
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”
“When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
“That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
“Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.”
“Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.”
