Neil Finn Quotes
What was stolen must be returned
Finn, Neil. "Song of the Lonely Mountain." The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), WaterTower Music, 2012.
The Arabs again attacked Israel. Arab Artillery was set up and shelled Israel from Hebron, a major West Bank Arab City. The Israeli military then captured Hebron. On Ben-Gurion’s instructions, the city was returned. With the possible exception of the American Allies after WWII there has been no other modern war where captured territory of the aggressive loser was so rapidly returned to the aggressor.
Austin was jailed for sedition in Mexico but still fought for rights for Texans. General Antonio Lopez Santa Ana loosened land laws gong easy terms to Americans, made English an official language, introduced trial be jury and other reforms. Austin wrote from prison:. Austin received amnesty but within weeks, his reaction to Santa Ana's excesses in putting down the Zacatecas Rebellion with rape and pillage and killing more that a thousand civilians. Austin became an independista.
Neil Mullane Finn OBE is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician who is currently a member of Crowded House and Fleetwood Mac. With his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz, a project that he joined after it was initially founded by Tim and others, and then became the frontman for Crowded House. He has also recorded several successful solo albums and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide project; contributor Ed O'Brien, also guitarist for Radiohead, has hailed Finn as popular music's "most prolific writer of great songs".