Electric Wizard Quotes

#1. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it ... we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera,

Eddie Adams

#3. The robin brushes me at dusk.
Our good bones fail. We leave no mark.
His voice, she writes, was clear and quiet.
I hear him singing in the dark.

("Edward Thomas' Daughter")

Alison Brackenbury

#4. If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps.

Charity Parkerson

#5. Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

Joshua Bell

#6. I assume you know what to do with this. That's why you were hired.

Grant Tinker

#7. I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.

Carol Vorderman

#8. Life is a gift ... Life is a test ... Life is temporary assignment ...

Rick Warren

#9. The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

Bill Veeck

#10. It's much better to ask small questions than big ones.

Steven D. Levitt