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“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
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“For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.”
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“I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.”
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“I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.”
Source : Ace Frehley (2011). “No Regrets”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
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“I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.”
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“George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines, or a guitar string; as I walked into the room, he lovingly placed the bundle on his head.”
Source : Alan Goldsher (2010). “Paul Is Undead”, p.199, Simon and Schuster
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“What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.”
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“If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.”
Source : Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006
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“The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.”
Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
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“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”
Source : Source: www.esquire.com
