#bough

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#front #i #just #mother #piano

The boughs that bear most hang lowest. ↗

— David Garrick

#boughs #hang #lowest #most

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#engineer #got #high #high school #i

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#crappy #doing #early #encouraged #first

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#among #because #bought #chiefly #contemplating

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market. ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#given #god #grace #knowledge #market

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#chose #gun #i #instead

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#bought #choose #frankenstein #mask #own

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#age #attacked #born #bought #december

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.' ↗

— Andrew Dost

#beatles #before #blew #bought #compilation