Jack Goody quotes
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“The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all.”
-- Jack GoodySource : Jack Goody (1975). “Literacy in Traditional Societies”, p.38, Cambridge University Press
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“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”
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“I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.”
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“Marriage is a leap of faith. You are each other's safety net.”
Source : Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.47, Penguin
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