#be

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies. ↗

— Frank Black

#against #anything #because #been #even

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that. ↗

— Frank Black

#children #i #i write #kids #like

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#dispenses #even #gift #god #good

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#believe #reward #see #you

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #been #beyond #command #defined

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#doing #i #mtv #music #people

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#depends #firmly #i #our #poor

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. ↗

— Alan Bleasdale

#beastly #deformed #doth #makes #man

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗