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Maybe I just don't understand poetry. I admit it's not the first thing I
reach for when I pick up something to read.
Don [Adams] and I were recently invited to visit the
CIA for an exhibit they had of gadgets from "Get
Smart," "I Spy," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E," and the
Bond movies, and so forth. And they said that
during those years, the CIA actually did watch those
shows and made some of those devices actually work.
It's depressing that the words =secret agent= have
>become synonymous with =sex maniac=.
I lingered round them [tombstones], under that
benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the
heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind
breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone
could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers
in that quiet earth.
Boys are kept in the English Benedictine colleges
solely and simply to sing hymns to the Virgin.
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature
and art.
Always remeber that popularity is the number one most important thing
in the life of a human being.
I would love . . . a one-year break doing absolutely
nothing. Now whether, as I say to my friends, I will
take to the gin bottle at 11 o'clock in the morning,
and drink myself or smoke myself to death, I don't
know--but I'd love to find out.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It
is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
But I will say that I have did [sic] remarkable for
one of my years and experience. As for publicity,
that I'm too old to care for now.
There is a pleasure in madness, which none but madmen know.
A Cleveland disk jockey named Alan Freed was the
first to scout the new market. Told about these
crossover sales by a store owner... in June
1951, on his mostly white radio station, he started
a rhythm and blues show for which he coined the
euphemism "rock 'n' roll".
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.
It is his nature to create as it is the nature of
water to run down hill.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
I feel uncomfortable listening to Beethoven.
I think he is too personal, almost naked.
Give me Bach, rather, and then more Bach.
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
I had an incredible loathing of rock 'n' roll. If
you liked jazz, you didn't touch rock 'n' roll.
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior
talent.
Nor do I hear
in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear
them, as it were, all at once. . . . What a delight
this is I cannot tell!
I do not welcome advice from actors, they are here to act.
Summertime...
And the livin' is easy.
Finally, as Jagger sang "Sympathy For The Devil," an
18-year-old black man, Meredith Hunter, pulled a gun
on a Hell's Angel and he was stabbed and left dead,
all in the midst of a packed crowd of thousands of
people. . . .
The Stones were not to play
'Sympathy For The Devil' again in public for six years.
It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
John Lennon was shot dead
by a fan. Actors are targets.
Madness need not be all breakdown.
It may also be [a] break-through.
As the Detroit fires raged, one local radio station
played "Light My Fire" over and over again. In the
wake of the burnings the song took on a new meaning
in an especially hot summer in America.
Yellow is capable of charming God.
Milk is bad for you. Ask Pat Boone.