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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. ”
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset. ”
We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on. ”
I'm one of the lucky artists in Nashville that gets to - I know it sounds cliche - but just write from the heart. ”
Sometimes when you belt, it kinda makes the song more dramatic than it really needs to be. There are certain songs that you hear, and you're like, 'Wow, he's singing about his girlfriend, but he sounds kinda mad the way he's yelling, 'You're so pretty!'' ”
Kenny Chesney's music cuts. He gets into those massive ballads like 'There Goes My Life' and 'The Good Stuff' and things like that that just crush you, and delivers them so well. Some of that you can't really put your finger on; it's just magic. ”
My dad was listening to me noodle around on the guitar in the house and sing, and he was like, 'Man, you're funny, and you sound good when you do that. You should do that at a bar.' I had stage fright, so I was like, 'No, Dad. Leave me alone.' ”
Talking about my addiction to alcohol is therapeutic. Most definitely telling everyone about it is as well. ”
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. ”
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ”