#her

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. ↗

— Mose Allison

#any #couple #duke #duke ellington #ellington

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#first #floor #i #i can #melissa

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#brother #clapton #his #i #most

My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, he became a father figure to me. I would have done anything for my brother - I loved him so much. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#became #brother #days #done #elder

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. ↗

— Lord Acton

#book #content #favourites #others #seek

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#cardboard #create #exciting #exists #i

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#after #awards #before #changed #enormous

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#even #fascinated #funnier #her #i

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated. ↗

— Russell Banks

#come #educated #first #first of all #higher

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#could #fail #government #how #jury