"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them."

-- Ralph Bakshi

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“Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.”
“Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.”
“I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.”

Source : "A room of my own: Billy Childish" by Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.
“When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.
“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.”

Source : "Dictionary of Humorous Quotations" edited by Evan Esar, (p. 156), 1949.
“Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be coaxed out of them, it has nothing to do with the phases of the moon or even how they feel that day. They go on stage and start playing. Being creative is their job.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not ***** independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”
“There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.”

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