"All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements."

-- Vashti Bunyan

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.”
“Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.”
“The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.”
“When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesnâ€™t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, thatâ€™s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, itâ€™s just what youâ€™ve been searching for all these years.”

Source : "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2010.
“Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.”
“From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.”
“When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.”
“I deal with the depraved, the sick, the pathetic, the disturbing and the profoundly depressed. I will try it all on. I will try on what I am and what I never want to be. And everything I wanted to be, but never can be. I can be a supermodel, or your worst nightmare. Off-stage, I just get to leave it, and nobody thinks I'm like that. This is what prevents me from being a psychopath and a sociopath, my time on stage.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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