“I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.”
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“The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.”
“You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!”
“You need to be able to confide in people.”
“People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all.”
“In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.”
“I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo acoustic session, they were like "Can you play song on the piano?" and I was like "Not really. It doesn't really work." I wanted to write songs that would work in a variation of instrumentation.”
“I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.”
“I've heard doctors say that before the crisis hits, people don't want prolonged measures, but then in the middle of the crisis they want everything.”
“Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.”
“I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.”
“We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or a 90-year-old body that is breaking down in multiple ways and doesn't have that resilience. And so it doesn't surprise me that someone who is completely unprepared for death may say, "Doc, do everything."”
“Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.”
“How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.”
“One interview would lead us to another interview, which led us to another interview. We had the questions and the idea of chonicling this moment in time. But we didn't have a movie, per se. As we started interviewing people, it started to kind of define itself.”
“Be nice to old people.”
“Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.”
“To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.”
“Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.”
“There are certainly a lot of people - and I won't name names - who are getting by simply on expression. And I guess that's valuable in some sense. But songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.”