"The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff."

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Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

David Grubbs

#Writing Quotes #Division Of Labor Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.”

Source : Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.249, Random House
“With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.”
“The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.”

Source : Morris Kline (1982). “Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty”, p.101, Oxford University Press, USA
“When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.”
“Wherefore a good name is better than riches.”
“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
“Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.”
“I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.”

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