#sessions

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#could #i #just #musically #never

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#despotism #fetters #freedom #our #possessions

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#little #possessions #truly #you #your

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. ↗

— Herodotus

#most #possessions #precious

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#cares #enlargement #go #increase #multiply

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#ideas #much #obsessions #people #represents

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#cookbook #grandma #letters #martha #most

When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#arrangements #back #combination #composed #few