"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails."

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Source : Romain Rolland (1911). “Jean-Christophe”

Romain Rolland

#Sunshine Quotes #Artist Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinking the automobile, thinking of it as a robot on four wheels, essentially, something that can communicate with other intelligent devices, it can operate in a coordinated way, you can really start to fundamentally rethink urban personal mobility.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?'”

Source : "Cody Simpson is a YouTube Star!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. July 8, 2010.
“I would choose no other band, given the opportunity, except for one that's extinct, like Devo. Sorry to my bandmates, but I'd rather be in Devo.”
“Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and highest in all of us. And Jonas delivers his songs with a power, joy, and grace that last long after the last note is played. The world needs this music!”
“The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.”
“This is a vast frontier that's going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated.”
“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.”
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”

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