Amazing. Thank God for whomever anonymous is.
Rock Historian Ed Ward, on The Lost Promise Of Buddy Holly:
We’ll never know what he was looking for while his wife, Maria Elena, did the dishes, but I’m confident now that he’d probably have found it. If it gave him the strength to stand up to the suits who wanted him to be a teenager’s Sinatra and make recordings that built on his already-impressive past, American rock ‘n’ roll might have been very different.
I wrote a friend of mine with some of these speculations after I got the Memorial Collection and Rarities, and he wrote back, “Imagine what we’d think of John Lennon if the Beatles had all died in a plane crash after their first album.” Lennon and Holly would have been the same age, after all.
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Allow your intuition (or spirit) to save you from heartache. Stop trying to change yourselves for a relationship that’s not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy. If a relationship ends because the man was not treating you as you deserve then heck no, you can’t “be friends.” A friend wouldn’t mistreat a friend. Don’t settle. If you feel like he is stringing you along, then he probably is. Don’t stay because you think “it will get better.” You’ll be mad at yourself a year later for staying when things are not better. The only person you can control in a relationship is you. Avoid men who’ve got a bunch of children by a bunch of different women. He didn’t marry them when he got them pregnant, Why would he treat you any differently? Always have your own set of friends separate from his. Maintain boundaries in how a guy treats you. If something bothers you, speak up. Never let a man know everything. He will use it against you later. You cannot change a man’s behavior. Change comes from within. Don’t EVER make him feel he is more important than you are…even if he has more education or in a better job. Do not make him into a quasi-god. He is a man, nothing more nothing less. Never let a man define who you are. Never borrow someone else’s man!!! Oh Lord! If he cheated with you, he’ll cheat on you. A man will only treat you the way you allow him to treat you♥
