"You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song. Your ear picks it up and you get excited but then it goes into some monotone thing. The Buddha Bar stuff annoys me. I don't need to be on a beach and hear this stuff through little speakers, but people think it creates a "cool vibe"."

-- Stephen Dewaele

#Song Quotes #Beach Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.”
“If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.”
“If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.”
“I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.”
“Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.”
“There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.”

Source : Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.96, New York Review of Books
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
“A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.”

Source : John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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