Today’s One-Liner (#97)
The memory of you keeps callin’ after me like a rollin’ train –Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl
The memory of you keeps callin’ after me like a rollin’ train –Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl
My music is the production of my genius and my misery. –Franz Schubert, 1797-1828 Quoted in Phil G. Goulding, Classical Music
I believe in God—Bach’s God. –Glenn Gould, in Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night. –Bruce Springsteen, Thunder Road
For Dr. Erin Nealon, who introduced me to Jojo [Jonathan Richman] circa early 2000. Even right now as I write this, I’ve got That Summer Feeling… We still need more parties in the USA.
Na na na nananana, nannana, hey Jude –Beatles, August 1968
“Play La Marseillaise. Play it!”
Indeed, the very use of the word “revolution” is suspect because every historical event that people want to invest with drama and importance is given the honorific title “revolution.” –Avishai Margalit, Views in Review: Politics…
It is, indeed, not necessary to shew by many instances what all mankind confess, by an incessant call for variety, and restless pursuit of enjoyments, which they value only because unpossessed. –Dr. Samuel Johnson, The…
Knocking’ on Heaven’s Door