Ian Anderson The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players. – Ian Anderson Alternative Quotes Bigger Quotes Filled Quotes Fish Quotes Flute Quotes Guitar Quotes Increasingly Quotes Players Quotes Pool Quotes I can never make up my mind if I’m happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton. I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.
Heather Mac Donald Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours. – Heather Mac Donald
Alexander HamiltonNature The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. – Alexander Hamilton
Henry Villard Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy. – Henry Villard
DadJulia FoxMovies I grew up above a video store. My dad had an account with them and… he was very busy and had his own life. So I just would watch movies nonstop. – Julia Fox
Martin Brodeur After his hockey days, my dad became a photographer, and a really good one, at that. He used to shoot the Expos and Canadiens, and he’d give me five bucks to haul around his equipment during games. He never had to ask me twice to do it. – Martin Brodeur
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