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I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way. ↗

— Mos Def

#bit #different #get #i #just

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming. ↗

— Mos Def

#different things #instrument #just #me #natural

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. ↗

— Mos Def

#articulate #artist #everyday #experience #express

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#back #been #before #changed #done

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#evil #poverty #root #snares #worst

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#barbarous #christian #civilized #considering #country

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#every #every man #eyes #his #innocent

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#ahead #because #being #bottom #death

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. ↗

— Edgar Degas

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