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Jeffrey Lewis

"What can you think when one review says "this album is brilliant, and all the songs flow into the utmost brilliant song 'The Upside-Down Cross'" then another review says "this album is brilliant, except for that horrible and pointless song 'The Upside-Down Cross'," and another review will say "Jeffrey really sounds confident and relaxed on this new album", the next reviewer says "Jeffrey sounds more depressed and awful than ever" - these totally contrasting reviews happen all the time!"

Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jeffrey Lewis

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Awful Quotes

“I'm so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it's acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing my own projects.”
“... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you.”
“Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.”
“This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)”
“That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only.”
“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.”
“I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.”

Source : "Meet Vaclav Smil, the Canadian polymath whose books Bill Gates is racing to read". Interview with Ritchie King, qz.com. August 08, 2013.
“If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.”

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