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Prostitute yourself. As far as I'm concerned, that's even
braver than waiting for the public to catch on.
When she started to play, Steinway himself came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords--philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
Yet there is one thing the world with all its rottenness cannot take from
us, and that is the deep and abiding joy and consolation perpetuate in great
music. Here the spirit may find home and relief when all else fails.
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount
of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more
satirical comment than a repressive...
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a
luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the
beginning of consciousness to the end.
Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstandings that
can gather around a new name.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of
information. The rest is advertising.
A best moment in music? Sometimes when I'm playing my guitar,
I get to a point where it gets very cold and icy inside me. It's very
refreshing. Every breath is like you're at the North Pole. Your head
starts to freeze. Your inhalations are big-more air than you ever
thought there is starts pouring in. There's something magical about
it. Sometimes when it happens, you wonder if you're gonna be okay. Can
you handle it?
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete
with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it..
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more
artistic than to love others.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
Thee too, old fiddle, oft thy strings Rejoice, or triumph, or complain,
A needful balm thy music brings, For weariness or pain.
Bizarreness is the essence of the exotic. As modern entertainers inadvertantly
struggle to make the bizarre become common place [...] is the very
reason why most Americans are living, what in
1950, would have been called "Holywood Lives".
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no
birds sang except those that sang best.
Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not.
God knows.
I used to be 'with it.' Then they changed what 'it' was. Now, whatever
I'm 'with' isn't 'it,' and what's 'with it' seems weird and scary.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be
prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;
persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
If Mr. Clemens (Mark Twain) cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded
lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them.
I am just going outside, and may be some time.
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