At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.
Alice WalkerThere is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya AngelouWhen I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.
Dave GrohlI have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
Taylor SwiftWhile there’s life, there’s hope.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMost of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
David ByrneDon’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
Lou HoltzAlthough the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
Pope FrancisIf you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
Lana Del ReyWhen I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘
George LucasI’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.
Lady GagaThe true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert EinsteinIn such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
Emily DickinsonYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia WoolfPoetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund BurkeNo press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‚Did you hear about?‘ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
Lady GagaThe most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
Taylor SwiftSongs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
Taylor SwiftI joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Ludwig van BeethovenI really love the culture of hip-hop.
Nipsey HussleThe chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel JohnsonI can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.
RihannaLet us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar WildeWithout freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert CamusNothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.
The WeekndPassions are the gales of life.
Alexander PopeMusic, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
Bill GatesHip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.
EminemGod gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
VoltaireA guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert CamusEven though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.
The WeekndIt’s terrifying to play your favorite band’s song in front of your favorite band.
Dave GrohlAs the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis BaconI have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador DaliI remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.
David ByrneEurope has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.
James BaldwinAn artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Vincent Van GoghHealth is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘
Angelina JolieLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tennessee WilliamsLife is anything but predictable.
Dwayne JohnsonThe direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
PlatoI’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.
Taylor SwiftThe mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.
Oscar WildeWrite injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin FranklinI’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.
Bill GatesMusic is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van BeethovenThe arts don’t exist in isolation.
David ByrneLife begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul SartreLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand RussellFrom the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.
Dave GrohlMy mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.
Bruno MarsI try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.
Stephen CurryThere’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.
Dave GrohlPunk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt CobainThere is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthurThe man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad AliI love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
Dave GrohlEnvironment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.
The WeekndI don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.
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