January 30: Notable Births and Deaths, with Quotes
Let’s explore notable birth and death anniversaries for January 30.
Phil Collins, musician (January 30, 1951–present)
“Actually, I do get very fit with Genesis because I do a lot of running around, a lot of playing. So I go out on the road flabby and I come back like Schwarzenegger.” —Phil Collins
“Phil Collins.” Interview, April 9, 2017, https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/phil-collins.
“I had a group when I was fourteen—we did a lot of Motown stuff, a lot of Styx stuff.” —Phil Collins
“Phil Collins.” Interview, April 9, 2017, https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/phil-collins.
“It just looks so dull—to have the lead singer of a group on the drums is visually the kiss of death.” —Phil Collins
“Phil Collins.” Interview, April 9, 2017, https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/phil-collins.
“The basis of everything I write is drum machine rhythm. I have four or five drum machines at home. I just set up a pattern, get a sound on my Prophet or piano and just sod about until I get something I like.” —Phil Collins
“Phil Collins.” Interview, April 9, 2017, https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/phil-collins.
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader (October 2, 1869–January 30, 1948)
“One fasts for health’s sake under laws governing health, fasts as a penance for a wrong done and felt as such. In these fasts, the fasting one need not believe in Ahimsa.” —Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi, Mahatma. “On the eve of last fast.” Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and Gandhi Research Foundation, January 12, 1948, https://www.mkgandhi.org/speeches/evelast.htm.
“No man, if he is pure, has anything more precious to give than his life.” —Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi, Mahatma. “On the eve of last fast.” Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and Gandhi Research Foundation, January 12, 1948, https://www.mkgandhi.org/speeches/evelast.htm.
“A pure fast, like duty, is its own reward. I do not embark upon it for the sake of the result it may bring.” —Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi, Mahatma. “On the eve of last fast.” Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and Gandhi Research Foundation, January 12, 1948, https://www.mkgandhi.org/speeches/evelast.htm.
Orville Wright, aviation pioneer (August 19, 1871–January 30, 1948)
“That day at Kitty Hawk, we thought only of getting off the ground. Later we hoped that the airplane would be an instrument of peace, perhaps the instrument that would enforce peace.” —Orville Wright
Roberts, Chalmers M. “I Interviewed Orville Wright.” The Washington Post, December 17, 1983, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/12/17/i-interviewed-orville-wright/2894b7c8-9b4c-46ba-aecf-86fd26b4d97e/.
“We thought governments would recognize the impossibility of winning by surprise attacks and that no country would enter into war with another of equal size when it knew that it would have to win by simply wearing out its enemy.” —Orville Wright
Briggs, Johnathon. “Wrights saw airplanes as tools of peace.” The Baltimore Sun, April 20, 2003, https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-wrights05-story.html.
“The aeroplane will prevent war by making it too expensive, too slow, too difficult, too long drawn out.” —Orville Wright
Briggs, Johnathon. “Wrights saw airplanes as tools of peace.” The Baltimore Sun, April 20, 2003, https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-wrights05-story.html.
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