“Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.” MeanLittlesHas BeensProblemRealityAsksImaginationOur LivesPoetSolitudeCreaturesMusicianMy FriendsWarriorProphetCrucialConventionalBeggarBelievableScoundrelsCrux Book:Century of the Wind Source: Century of the Wind
“I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.” WayLittlesArtFormFoundWaterMusicianI Have LearnedMuddyHowlin Wolf Book:Clapton: The Autobiography Source: Clapton: The Autobiography
“Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.” LittlesHas BeensOpinionPoetPoliticianMusicianJazzPhilosopherPainterComedianNovelistsMy TimeHistorianPreacherComfortingEnlighteningJazz MusicianClowning Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.” WritingLittlesDoneAbleSongDarknessTearsMusicianCorners Author:Bono
“But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.” WorldYearsLittlesTwoThreeCoursesReadingBornCasesParticularBabyMusicianYesterdayWelcomeTwo YearsSarcasticIronicFifteenCongratulationsVioletSiblingSunnyWednesdayFifteen YearsLearning To ReadBabyhoodThree Siblings Author:Daniel Handler