I don't really collect guitars.
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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
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As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.
Jesse: So what kind of songs do you write? I didn't know you did that. Celine: What kind? Jesse: Yeah, sure. Celine: I don't know, just songs. Jesse: Like? Celine: Like, some are about, you know, people, uh, relationships. One's about my cat. Jesse: ...
I played classical as a kid.
The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.
I think guitar is the best thing in the world.
I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.
I don't recall getting a first guitar.
I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.
My first love was the sound of guitar.
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.
I never liked mellow sounding guitar.
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
