#sol

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was! ↗

— Andy Taylor

#artist #being #discovered #how #i

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#audience #cool #had #huge #huge audience

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be. ↗

— James Taylor

#beings #i #i think #isolated #think

On a Fine Morning” in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) WHENCE comes Solace?--Not from seeing What is doing, suffering, being, Not from noting Life’s conditions, Nor from heeding Time’s monitions; But in cleaving to the Dream, And in gazing at the gleam Whereby gray things golden seem. This do I this heyday, holding Shadows but as lights unfolding, As no specious show this moment With its iris-hued embowment; But as nothing other than Part of a benignant plan; Proof that earth was made for man. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#dreams

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. ↗

— John Templeton

#becoming #believe #clinging #concepts #i

You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song. ↗

— Benmont Tench

#bring #crazy #emotional #get #go

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#before #building #cricket #field #foundation

The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#army #called #crime #desert #escape

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#because #believe #course #envy #even

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on. ↗

— John Thaw

#fascinated #him #murder #puzzle #same