Music, Art and Madness Quotations and Proverbs

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Rerun - The Best of September 2004: (10)

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
  • Henry van Dyke
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
  • Margaret Sarah Fuller
I think consciousness has a place in the cosmic game, the atoms-and-universe game, the big game. I can't imagine that it's mindless--there's too much organization, and the organization is too incredible.
  • Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) _The Wisdom of Jerry Garcia_ 1995
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
  • Elvis Presley
I got fed up with all the sex and sleaze and backhanders of rock 'n' roll so I went into politics.
  • Tony Blair, on why he left pop group Ugly Rumours
I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
  • Victor Mature (1913-1999)
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
  • Garrison Keillor
You're never too old to become younger.
  • Mae West (1892-?)
Anybody can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
  • jazz musician Charlie Mingus

 

 

 

 

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