Andy Rourke Quotes

My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.

Andy Rourke

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WorkJobBackSellingFirstUp

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

Meghan O'Rourke

LoveMomentBeginningFalling In Love

I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.

John Prendergast

TimePeaceHumilityMeProcessMost

I had to embrace just basically writing and recording on my laptop. On long drives through the Rockies, I would take my laptop and mess around with ideas and make rough sketches of songs.

St. Lucia

IdeasWritingLongEmbraceMess

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.

Trey Anastasio

FeelingDoneWayExcitementYears

At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'

Robbie Robertson

AgeGreatCoolSayingThoughtYoung

It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.

Roy Ayers

CreativeFeelingWonderfulJust

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Joseph Butler

TongueInjusticeViceServeMay

The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it.

David Thewlis

BestDoingYouSeeingDoneKid

It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.

Brandon Stanton

PeopleYouTalkDifferentSpectrum

You never know what show is going to change your life.

Brion James

LifeChangeYouKnowNeverGoing

For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.

ASAP Rocky

DayPeopleMeCrazyStupidGay

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

Alice Paul

YouDoneYoungNeverHardAnything

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