We knew there would be a certain amount of eye-rolling going on. It was inevitable. But the fact was we always played together. And we figured, look at the upside, people will come to the show because of the celebrity aspect, and then they'll hear great music and we've made a new fan. And that's just what happened.


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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
FRANCIS BACON
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
FRANCIS BACON
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
FRANCIS BACON
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
FRANCIS BACON
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
FRANCIS BACON
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
FRANCIS BACON
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
FRANCIS BACON
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
FRANCIS BACON
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in...
FRANCIS BACON
Truth is a naked and open daylight
FRANCIS BACON
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit...
FRANCIS BACON
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, o...
FRANCIS BACON
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
FRANCIS BACON
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This ...
ROGER BACON
Riches are for spending.
FRANCIS BACON
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly a...
FRANCIS BACON
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
FRANCIS BACON
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave...
FRANCIS BACON
It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save tha...
FRANCIS BACON
As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the b...
FRANCIS BACON
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
FRANCIS BACON
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
FRANCIS BACON
Opportunity makes a thief.
FRANCIS BACON
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners an...
FRANCIS BACON
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
FRANCIS BACON
Nature is commanded by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON
This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature...
FRANCIS BACON
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
FRANCIS BACON
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
FRANCIS BACON
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially n...
FRANCIS BACON
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to b...
FRANCIS BACON
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
FRANCIS BACON
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
FRANCIS BACON
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy...
FRANCIS BACON
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
FRANCIS BACON
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
FRANCIS BACON
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACON