Ethnomusicology Forum Quotes & Sayings

Cole, I know I haven't earned it, but would you mind very much if I tried the organ?" Blake's voice filled the empty church.
Cole smiled sadly. "Of course, brother. It would be an honor to hear you play again."
Cole's despair settled into his bones. His crying soul now had the worst kind of company: another soul crying just as loud. — Debra Anastasia

I began to see how deep the well of her loving was, and how much her happiness and confidence depended on drawing that love into the light, and sharing it. And love was beautiful in her. It was a clear sky she gave us with those eyes, and a summer morning with her smile. — Gregory David Roberts

anyway and have racks of them in the shop. Sammy would help her by pointing her in the right direction for selling her art. Sammy knew all the commercial art — Jennie Jones

Roll me in sugar and call me a fuckin jelly-doughnut! — Stephen King

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done. — James Sanborn

The dubious achievement in travel these days is enduring the persistent nuisance of a succession of airports in order to arrive at a distant place for a brief interlude of the exotic, — Paul Theroux

Comedians love people to point and laugh at them, naturists don't. — Roy Station

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. — Hamilton Fish

Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness. — Rumi

Florence took a deep breath. It expanded her lungs, making more room for the crippling fear that locked her knees in place. Then she exhaled it, and moved forward. "Yes, — Elise Kova

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. — Erica Jong

The essence of the CEO's job is strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation. — William Kraut

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. — Ayn Rand

One of biggest rules in football is you have to avoid crosses. — Jurgen Klopp

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. — Steven Pinker