"While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work."

-- Wooden Wand

#Good Mood Quotes #Collecting Quotes #Melody Quotes

“I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.”
“Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.”
“Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.”
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
“On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.”

Source : Song: The Year Of The Cat
“It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.”
“If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.”

Source : "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.”

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