I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.
I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians from the 1800s as well as Tuskegee Airmen in my lineage.
If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.
I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.
An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.
My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.