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I've always loved to sing. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#i #loved #sing

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#courage #form #humans #i #i think

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#gray #just #over #passing #skies

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#attitude #enough #never #satisfied

Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#missing #playing #scrabble #vowels

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#difficult #easy #good #quite #song

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#carried #concerning #critics #did #done

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#bowl #country #differences #different #different things

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#always #even #hear #lifestyle #live

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#books #commissioned #kind #life #margaret