#ring

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

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered. ↗

— Lara St. John

#having #instrument #intonation #play #possibility

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

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here? ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#any #crime #doing #end #first

How can you regret helping a suffering patient? ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#how #patient #regret #suffering #you

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck. ↗

— Bob Seger

#gotta #great #heck #hours #i

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#am #discovering #even #focused #i

The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet. ↗

— Zalmay Khalilzad

#builds #feet #for the people #future #gets

This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together. ↗

— Amanullah Khan

#between #bring #cooperation #countries #gas

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#established #everywhere #governments #greater #last