There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a mans self. – Francis Bacon
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. – Toni Morrison, Beloved
The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, Id say probably in the early 70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out. – Jimmy Buffett
