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Adults would come to the house, he
said, looking for little Michael and be disappointed
when they saw him. It hurt him deeply, which no
doubt fueled the obsession with the colorful
jackets, the dark glasses, the sequined gloves, the
ever-altering physical appearance.
I found out a lot of that shit I learned in school
about writing doesn't apply.
People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be.
It is what it used to be -- that's what's wrong with it.
The passion for destruction is also a creative passion
The future is still ours to make. The '80s will blossom if only people accept peace
and love in their heart. It would just add to the
tragedy if people turned away from the message in
John's music.
The pressures which hit him were the pressures
from going from just being another guy on the block to being the
spokesman of your generation. [...] People would come up
and ask him the meaning of life -- that put a young person who'd just
written a song and played a bit of guitar under enormous pressure.
I'm just wandering, I think of things and then they
go away forever.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first
choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
Onstage, Cream was a jazz band. We just didn't tell Eric.
The best songs don't get recorded, the best recordings don't
get released, and the best releases don't get played.
At
our worst we were still better than most. At our best we could just
wipe the floor with the lot of them. It was just a very good live
band.
I would always be seeking for
excuses, ever after, not to write; and I have often wondered why I
began at all.
A soprano who can gargle her way up to F sharp in alt is more
to such simple souls than a whole drove of Johann Sebastian Bachs.
I had to justify in words,
with ideas, all my actions--no matter how insane.
Most of the time I couldn't.
True mods were really too concerned with their clothes to want
to ruin them by fighting with worthless rockers.
Up until the sixties, you couldn't buy clothes (in London) other than your
parents clothes. [...] Before that all you had was the same clothes
your dad wore. Life suddenly was colorful.
In the Tewa language [of the Towa] there is no word for art. There is,
however, the concept for an artful life, filled with inspiration and
fueled by labor and thoughtful approach.
Some nights I still sleep on the beach.
Remembering when stars were in reach.
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system
of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and
creativity.
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.
I didn't realize people took songs so seriously, and
it made me wonder whether I ought to consider the
consequences [of what I write].
I was tired of writing a lot of serious stuff that didn't
pay the bills. I wanted to create a best-seller.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know
[...] James Penny was a Liverpool-based slave-ship
captain, slave trader and an outspoken anti-
abolitionist. [...]
Earlier this month, the Liverpool City Council
considered a proposal under which streets named
after slave traders would be renamed [...]
But when the council realized that Penny Lane was
among the streets that would have to be renamed, it
hesitated. Penny Lane is one of the most significant
tourist sites in Liverpool; thousands of people come
each year to visit the street made famous in the 1967
Beatles song. In the end, the council decided to
leave the name unchanged.