Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.
An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.
As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.
When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.
It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
I would give up everything for you, Giulia" I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world.
The most important responsibility we have on this planet is to take care of one another.
There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does not yield an equal and coincident benefit. For it is an observation as true, as it is trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money.
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth