"I started out, in the mid-'70s, taking photographs of rock bands that I liked but not because I really wanted to photograph them. Initially, I was pretending to be a photographer, simply so that I could go up to the front of the crowd and be a bit closer to the bands. But, I found I was gradually developing an interest in the photos I took."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Derek Ridgers

#Rocks Quotes #Band Quotes #Crowds Quotes

“When many plants are out of the picture in winter, it becomes clear that many of them should be pitched out. It's also much easier to do that before they come up and begin to talk to us.”
“There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.”
“The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.”
“Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!”
“You are what you pretend to be.”

Source : Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity (2011). “Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas”, p.161, Random House
“The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.”

Source : Ouida (1884). “Wanda”
“Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100 percent, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.”
“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”

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