"I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may as well be replaced by machines."

-- Stephin Merritt

#Smart Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Musician Quotes

“The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.”
“My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.”

Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.273
“A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.”
“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.”
“Samâ€™s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,â€ Caine said. â€œI canâ€™t let that boy save the world all alone. Iâ€™d never live it down.”
“Let every man look before he leaps.”
“And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?”
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”

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