May 26, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Robert W. Chambers (1865 – 1933):

“Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.”

Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965):

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

and

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

Miles Davis (1926 – 1991):

“If you understood everything I said, you’d be me.”

and

“Do not fear mistakes - there are none.”

and

“Don't play what's there; play what's not there.”

and

“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”

and

“Sometimes you have to play a long time to play like yourself.”

Levon Helm (1940 – 2012):

“Music is the language of heaven.”

and

“If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.”

and

“If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.”

Stevie Nicks (1948 - ):

“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.”

and

“If you are gracious, you have won the game.”