quotes about Dropping Out

“[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and it's like a moment where, in that moment you forget how it was and it's this new way. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember.”

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

“For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.”

“That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon.”

Source : "Fictional character: Luther Heggs". "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken", www.imdb.com. 1966.

“There is no difference in who started to study first; the one who achieves accomplishment is first.”

“Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent $22.99 on a nice digital clock, and she never saw an apparition again.”

“We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.”

“It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.”

“I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there.”

“It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.”