“What we built ain’t for this world, oh no… We’ll keep going til it dies… Let us live inside this so sweet mystery… Let it be so”
– from Let it Be So, written & performed by the Birmingham band St. Paul & The Broken Bones
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“In the world of tomorrow, the new man will ‘think’ the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.”
–Sun Ra, Jazz composer, bandleader, piano & synthesizer player, poet & philosopher, known for his experimental music & cosmic philosophy. Quoted as saying he was born on Saturn, but he was actually born, raised and departed from this world in Birmingham, Alabama.
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“Cooking is like music, you can tell when someone puts love in it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
–Taylor Hicks, singer who won the 5th season of American Idol. Since then quoted as saying he was “born on TV”. He was actually born in Birmingham, AL.
