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Quotes you like relating to expression, artistry, musicianship, life...?
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John Cage:
"I was invited to a musician's house one evening and during the course of dinner I asked to be excused so as to use the restroom. In a stunning display of sagacity and beneficience, my hosts complied.
Upon entering said lavatory I saw a rusted old brass birdcage containing no birds, plants, or seeds, but instead a photocopied picture of an outhouse.
Naturally, I found this sight quite curious. I later asked him about it.
He said nonchalantly,
"Oh, that's my John Cage."
I didn't stop laughing for a very long time."
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"Begin, the rest is easy" Confucius
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Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
::: Pablo Picasso :::
By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.
::: Richard Branson :::
Lack of clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor.
::: Brian Tracy :::
I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.
::: Jasper Johns :::
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
::: Salvador Dali :::
One has the advantage when you're very young that you've nothing to lose. Later on things become a burden, I think your past work sometimes becomes a burden.
::: David Hockney :::
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
::: Claude Monet ::: | |
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em978
RL Burnside....
In around 1959 he left Chicago and went back to Mississippi to work the farms and raise a family. Burnside claimed to have been convicted for murder and sentenced to six months' incarceration for the crime. Burnside's boss at the time reputedly pulled strings to keep the murder sentence short, due to having need of Burnside's skills as a tractor driver. "I didn't mean to kill nobody," Burnside later said. "I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord."
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Adjective
"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died. I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand. he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard."
- Mike Tyson remembering his childhood
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cbit
"Your thoughts, not your circumstances, determine how you feel. An absence of negative thought brings forth a positive feeling" richard carlson
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astroid
"Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life."
albert fish
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race4prize
this one gets me all the time
"what doesn't kill you will make you stronger"
i'm sorry but that is just bullshit. losing a limb? having half your head blasted off? muscles removed?
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race4prize
but i like this one by a sir alan partridge referring to a drug user
"needles to say i had the last laugh"
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tapirA
"aaaeeeeeoooouuuuueeeeee" ~ Rubber Johnny
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straight
haha the first band i was in about 10 years ago had a song with a chorus that went
'what doesnt kill you makes strong,
but if you feel you can't hold on,
let it go'
deep man
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bb01
"I just chop away everything I dont need" - Rodin
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electrodan
"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
-Kurt Vonnegut
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Roshi
"When a creation refers to its form as well as its content, that is art"
- Annie Dillard
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Roshi
"The Poet makes himself a seer by a long, immense and systematic derangement of all the senses."
- Rimbaud
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electrodan
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
-FZ
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Roshi
LOL. Liked that one, electrodan.
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astroboy
"Quotes you like relating to expression, artistry, musicianship, life...?"
Nagrom
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