John McLaughlin Quote: If I can get out of the way, if I ...

If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.

- John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin Quotes

- George Washington

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

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- Leonardo Da Vinci

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

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- Rebecca West

It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

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- Walter J. Turner

Mozart’s mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power.