“Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.”
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“I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.”
“A lot of things inspire me, but I would have to say the main thing that drives me is music.”
“I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.”
“In our behavior, in the words we write and speak, we can become ambassadors of God's inspiration. Whenever we strive to lift up others in ways that are good and noble we are serving as radiating centers for God's inspiration.”
“It is useless work that darkens the heart.”
“The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.”
“Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?”
“"You already said that," Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. "You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They don't fix anything, right? That's why I rarely bother."”
“September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.”
“Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.”
“Creativity inspires me.”
“I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.”
“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.”
“If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth.”
“I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.”
“Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.”
“In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.”
“No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.”
“Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.”