#kin

I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#band #dancing #doing #first #i

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#celebrate #could #create #fact #feminism

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#box #check #fence #forward #illusion

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#commercial #kinds #musical #other #success

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#common #common ground #degree #develops #find

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#comes #form #give #goal #goals

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.' ↗

— John McLaughlin

#age #dedicated #dedication #entire #entire life

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#gets #kind #matters #moment #next

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#blueprints #commercial #essentially #every #evoking

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay