"There are only so many instruments you can layer on top of each other that aren't perfectly electronically programmed. "Long Vermont Roads" just cannot be performed live, because it's just too cluttered if it's played by humans. Synthesizers stay out of each other's way in a way that hand-played instruments never can."

-- Stephin Merritt

“The judge gave me a break. He was like: wow, we've never heard of this. So he gave me time served in the county jail, I didn't even get a felony. I have yet to get a felony, which is so crazy. I think Lindsey Lohan has more felonies than me.”

Source : Source: bluemesareview.org
“Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble”
“When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.”

Source : "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.
“Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.”
“Iâ€™m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.”
“I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.”

Source : "Abstract Expressionism (World of Art)". Book by Davind Anfam (p. 202), 1990.
“Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.”
“Passion does not compensate for ignorance.”

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