"The idea of having an indie rock "career" while living in a remote backwater like Seattle was too ridiculous to contemplate. It was simply about having adventures, one day at a time, one song at a time."

-- Bruce Pavitt

#Song Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.”
“I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for a Christmas song and it seemed strangely appropriate for me this year because Christmas is the time that I am supposed to be sort of back and up and running and whatnot. So I just wrote a song about returning from this very interesting journey and kind of getting back to normal and getting back to work and my regular life.”
“Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.”
“In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.”
“Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas.”
“You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.”
“With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler”

Source : Peter Gizzi (2008). “The Outernationale”, p.45, Wesleyan University Press
“Go for today, don't worry about the future, it'll come eventually”

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