Dave Madden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business was not at all what it was cracked up to be as far as I was concerned. I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.
-- Dave Madden

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I try not to look back on my career.
-- Dave Madden

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I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.
-- Dave Madden

#Cells #Prison #Fame
I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it seemed like there was something missing. I wanted to go someplace higher myself, and go there with the people who come to hear me play. So I began to envision events with their own gravity, that would pull a community of people together for a meaningful experience.
-- Dave Madden

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Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them.
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
Not all prisons have bars
I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

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