1940s Music Quotes

#1. In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.

Steve Jobs

#2. The Drowned God plays savage japes upon us all, but men are crueler still.

George R R Martin

#3. It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery ... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

Lance Armstrong

#4. Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.

Eric Betzig

#6. Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Felix Frankfurter

#7. Purpose Erases Deep Hurts

Sunday Adelaja

#8. The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

Brendan Gill

#9. No mainstream philosopher has developed the kind of systematic, comprehensive, original, and influential exposition of atheism that is to be found in Antony Flew's fifty years of antitheological writings.

Antony Flew

#10. Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

Will Cuppy

#11. Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

Alexander Hamilton

#12. I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats.

Emma Brockes

#13. Spiritual matters should be private.

Sherman Alexie

#14. Hugo, we are taught to be advanced in every form from academically to socially. I think our parents fucked it up, taking that advancement for granted. They wanted us to grow up with everything and in return of that we became spoiled.

Chelsea Ballinger

#15. In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Dr. John

#16. There's a dark side to everything.

Prince

#17. You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes

Ally Carter