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1. "I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans." ~ Mavis Staples
2. "My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir." ~ Mavis Staples
3. "The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers." ~ Mavis Staples
4. "When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit." ~ Mavis Staples
5. "I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock." ~ Mavis Staples
6. "I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge." ~ Mavis Staples
7. "I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father." ~ Mavis Staples
8. "I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices." ~ Mavis Staples
9. "I have fun just about everywhere I go." ~ Mavis Staples
10. "I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out." ~ Mavis Staples
11. "I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying." ~ Mavis Staples
12. "I'm just singing what I feel in my heart." ~ Mavis Staples
13. "If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?" ~ Mavis Staples
14. "It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life." ~ Mavis Staples
15. "Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy." ~ Mavis Staples
16. "My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you." ~ Mavis Staples
17. "Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops." ~ Mavis Staples
18. "The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill." ~ Mavis Staples
19. "The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music." ~ Mavis Staples
20. "There are songs that I have to play!" ~ Mavis Staples
21. "Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone." ~ Mavis Staples
22. "I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement." ~ Mavis Staples
23. "Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family." ~ Mavis Staples

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I was young at Myna, that first time. When had the change come? He had retreated to here, to Collegium, to spin his awkward webs of intrigue and to lecture at the College. Then, years on, the call had come for action. He had gone to that chest in which he stored his youth and found that, like some armour long unworn, it had rusted away.He tried to tell himself that this was not like the grumbling of any other man who finds the prime of his life behind him. I need my youth and strength now, as never before. A shame that one could no husband time until one needed it. All his thoughts rang hollow. He was past his best and that was the thorn that would not be plucked from his side. He was no different from any tradesman or scholar who, during a life of indolence, pauses partway up the stairs to think, This was not so hard, yesterday."
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

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