Vieux Farka Quotes

#1. When someone makes a Family Circus reference and everyone on the room laughs, I'm in the wrong room.

Josh Hanagarne

#2. I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

Marco Tempest

#3. We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and never see another musician your whole life. We can't understand that in Mali.

Vieux Farka Toure

#4. I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

Lou Holtz

#5. The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.

Jeremy Taylor

#6. Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.

Vieux Farka Toure

#7. Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

Toni Morrison

#8. If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse. It's a lot more fun

Kevin Costner

#9. My father thought that if I was to go into the army, at the least I would have a reliable paycheck at the end of each month with which to feed my family. Music is less assured. One could say more dangerous!

Vieux Farka Toure

#10. There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

Jo Coudert

#11. Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

Tom Sturridge

#12. The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

Eric Allin Cornell

#13. Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#14. I cannot forget two things in my whole life; the bad days I have suffered and good days I have enjoyed

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Henry Clay

#16. Mali is a very social society. We share everything. I think sharing our resources in music forces us to collaborate more, play with other people more, share ideas more.

Vieux Farka Toure

#17. Else. "Anyway," she continued, "it sounds as though the duke has plans for us." She glanced at both of her sisters. "What sort of plans?

Rose Gordon