Charlie Byrd Quotes American - Musician September 16, 1925 - November 30, 1999 A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life. Charlie Byrd And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs. Charlie Byrd A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can. Charlie Byrd We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song. Charlie Byrd That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs. Charlie Byrd B. B. King Quotes American - Musician September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015 The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another. B. B. King Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear. B. B. King I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house. B. B. King I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others. B. B. King Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling. B. B. King My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling. B. B. King

Have tried a few times, restart computer, Firefox, Houzz, sign in and out, no go. Maybe this mess will show up tomorrow.

Victoria Woodhull Quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/victoria_woodhull American - Activist September 23, 1838 - June 9, 1927 I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question. Victoria Woodhull If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? Victoria Woodhull Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week. Victoria Woodhull I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. Victoria Woodhull I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Victoria Woodhull I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice. Victoria Woodhull Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. Victoria Woodhull Walter Lippmann Quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/walter_lippmann American - Journalist September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974 The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. Walter Lippmann Antonio Tabucchi Quotes https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/antonio_tabucchi Italian - Writer Born: September 23, 1943 I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. Antonio Tabucchi

My Eliot quote of the day:"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly". The language of our time could use some improvement.