Dahl Dreams

“Sing loud for the sunshine. Pray hard for the rain.”

– Led Zeppelin

“I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.”

– Bob Riley

“Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”

– Frank Zappa

“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”

– Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962

They’re not too bright at the Decca Recording Company, are they?

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

– Benjamin Franklin

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

– Mark Twain

“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”

– George Washington (First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789)