"What do you know about music? You're not a lawyer."

--

John Lurie

“One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.”
“When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.”
“Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.”
“I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.”
“Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.”

Source : "Black Elk Speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Ogalala Sioux" by John Neihardt, (Ch. 17), 1961.
“It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a common project of inquiry. It's also that the philosophers are well-versed in the relevant empirical data, and the scientists are well-versed in the more abstract issues which are typically the central focus of philosophical work.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.”
“Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.”

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