ArcaDreamsMusic Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence’s biography on him, ‘Hold on to Your Dreams,’ one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music. – Arca Arca Quotes Arthur Quotes Biography Quotes Dreams Quotes Hold Quotes Lawrences Quotes Levels Quotes Live Quotes Music Quotes Read Quotes Russell Quotes Tim Quotes Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people. Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don’t transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence – as in punishment and deterrence – is needed to rein in our worst instincts.
Philip Pullman And before I’d got to the end of the first paragraph, I’d come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it’s this: where am I telling it from? – Philip Pullman
Fearne Cotton Being at home with kids and husband and putting twinkly lights up: bliss. – Fearne Cotton
MotivationalRobert Louis Stevenson To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Michael Franti We have a saying in my house, my kids and my girlfriend. We say, ‘Be your best for the greater good, and rock out wherever you are.’ – Michael Franti
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