#old

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me. ↗

— Lara St. John

#been #drudgery #ear #everything #grownups

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#confusion #could #freedom #gets #kind

At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#again #bell #entered #few #fourth

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#economy #executive #expenditure #frugality #great

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#i #old #started #taking #years

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other. ↗

— Earl Scruggs

#band #been #best #each #eager

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful. ↗

— Earl Scruggs

#gaudy #get #gold #i #i think

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new. ↗

— Russell Johnson

#any #away #become #christ #man

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#forward #good #how #look #matter

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#explosive #happened #historical #history #i