Samba 2014 Quotes

#1. The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.

James Arthur Ray

#2. A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

Andrew Bird

#3. The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Marianne Williamson

#4. But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

Amy Ray

#5. I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Margaret Thatcher

#6. And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

William Blake

#7. In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#8. If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.

Robby Benson

#9. Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

Robert Graves

#10. An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.

Thomas Sowell

#11. From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

Calvin Harris