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At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They had groovy titles like The Word or The Way, and translated the Bible into “contemporary English,” which meant Saul yelling at Jonathan, “You son of a bitch!” (I Samuel 20:30). Awesome! The King James version gave this verse as “Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman,” which was bogus in comparison. Maybe these translations went a bit far. I recall one of the Bibles translating the inscription over the cross, “INRI” (Iesus Nazaremus Rex Iudaeorum), as “SSDD” (Same Shit Different Day), and another describing the Last Supper — the night before Jesus’ death, a death he freely accepted — where Jesus breaks the bread, gives it to his disciples, and says, “It’s better to burn out than fade away,” but these memories could be deceptive. ↗

— Rob Sheffield

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung. ↗

— Voltaire

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And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you. ↗

— Brian Logan Dales

#life #live #love #music #musician

So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day. ↗

— Peter Ackroyd

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To grow a melody?" "You can't grow a melody on purpose,” she said, and slyly added, “you have to plant an accidental. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

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While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

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Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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If everything could ever feel this real forever, if anything could ever be this good again, the only thing I'll ever ask of you, got to promise not to stop when I say when ↗

— Dave Grohl

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You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

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A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ↗

— Leopold Stokowski

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