#ch

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#discipline #enough #good #i #lack

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#chill #environment #feet #ground #heart

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#done #handwriting #i #i think #like

I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#anything #area #bar #beach #because

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#been #centuries #change #democrats #enemy

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#chief #confront #ever #hope #our

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#care #children #china #countries #credit

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#each #got #hit #make #makes

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#instrument #isolated #melancholy #miserable #such

What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it? ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#album #change #good #original #point