"When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror."

-- Marcus Mumford

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.”
“Once you find your lane, you can't cruise; When you define the game, you can't lose.”
“Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.”
“To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.”
“It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.”

Source : Sigmar Polke, Martin Hentschel, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst (1997). “Sigmar Polke: the three lies of painting”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.”
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
“Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.”

Source : Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”

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