Music, Art and Madness Quotations and Proverbs

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* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.

Added for January 2010: (12)

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
  • Neil Young
I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.
  • Neil Young
I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.
  • David Crosby
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
  • Stephen Stills
God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.
  • Stephen Stills
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
  • Stephen Stills
That was when Neil Young discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off [...] it was a great song, ("A Man Needs A Maid" 1972 with The London Symphony Orchestra) and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.
  • Stephen Stills
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
  • George Edward Moore (1873 - 1958)
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
  • William Blake (1757 – 1827)
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
  • Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965

 

 

 

 

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