De Lucia Quotes & Sayings

It has been seven years since you died. Of course what I'll say next is that time has flown by. I got old. All of a sudden, de repente. I walk with difficulty. I even drool. I leave the door unlocked in case I die in my sleep, but it's more likely I'll go endlessly on until I get put away someplace. I am already dotty.... It's not so strange that I talk to my cat but I feel silly because he is totally deaf. — Lucia Berlin

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. — Charles Dickens

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. — George Benson

Why is it so hard to get people to study the Scriptures? Common sense tells us what revelation commands: 'Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God'
'Search the Scriptures'
'Be ready to give to every one a reason of the hope that is in you.' These are the words of the inspired writers, and these injunctions are confirmed by praising those who obey the admonition. And yet, for all that we have the Bible in our houses, we are ignorant of its contents. No wonder that so many Christians know so little about what Christ actually taught; no wonder that they are so mistaken about the faith that they profess. — William Wilberforce

Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us. They can try like
hell to put it out, but as long as we know in our minds who we are meant to be,
they will never stand a chance. — Andy Biersack

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein. — Adam Michnik

Sally wasn't crying about their dead mother or her cancer. She was crying because her husband, Alfonso, had left her after twenty years for a young woman. It seemed a brutal thing to do, just after her mastectomy. She was devastated, but no, she wouldn't ever divorce him, even though the woman was pregnant and he wanted to marry her.

"They can just wait until I die. I'll be dead soon, probably next year..." Sally wept but the ocean drowned out the sound. — Lucia Berlin

Someone you considered a friend will kick you to the curb because you stop hanging out so much with the fellas to be with your girlfriend. Prioritize your relationships and you will discover who your real friends are. — T.D. Jakes

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create. — Paco De Lucia

The hands
find a way to do
what the heart
wants to say — Paco De Lucia

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense. — Richard Powers

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. — G.I. Gurdjieff

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened. — Lars Von Trier

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile, — Paco De Lucia

Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the Carrabian. I have a little house there where I spend two months listening to music, no playing because I don't bring the guitar with me, fishing and cooking my fish and charging the batteries for new concerts. — Paco De Lucia

You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative. — Sam Altman

In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents. — W.E.B. Du Bois

You are what you allow the Lord to make you. — Chris Heimerdinger

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. — Miguel Syjuco

I didn't study music. I literally lived it, — Paco De Lucia