#mel

I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#different #extremely #feels #happy #i

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically. ↗

— Midge Ure

#built #chords #concentrated #counter #everywhere

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#clean #full #grandmothers #hands #many

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#barbra streisand #both #careers #had #i

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#extremely #fought #over #perceive #resources

I saw you thro' a telescope and was so struck by your Charms that from that time to this I have not tasted human food. ↗

— Jane Austen

#food

The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with bravery, perseverance, endurance, and survival. They mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, sang, spun yarns, scrimshawed, and recorded their musings and observations in journals and letters. They survived boredom, backbreaking work, tempestuous seas, floggings, pirates, putrid food, and unimaginable cold. Enemies preyed on them in times of war, and competitors envied them in times of peace. Many whalemen died from violent encounters with whales and from terrible miscalculations about the unforgiving nature of nature itself. And through it all, whalemen, those “iron men in wooden boats” created a legacy of dramatic, poignant, and at times horrific stories that can still stir our emotions and animate the most primal part of our imaginations. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” proclaimed Herman Melville, and the epic story of whaling is one of the mightiest themes in American history. ↗

— Eric Jay Dolin

#harpoon #history #melville #moby-dick #ocean

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#do your best #every #good #hard #job

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#behold #dramatists #employ #fitted #learned

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet. ↗

— Michael Winslow

#art #artists #blessing #break #curse