“I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge. I just look at things as a fan, I like or or I don't like it.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 190 of 303
“What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.”
“I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.”
“My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.”
“I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.”
“I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection”
“You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.”
“I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.”
“There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.”
“It usually takes me at least ten days and a number of snacks to go from feeling something to being able to articulate what I felt.”
“I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.”
“What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.”
“Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter.”
“Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.”
“They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.”
“Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.”
“There is always a gap between intention and action.”
“They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.”
“if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.”
“I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?”