"I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name."

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Jello Biafra

#Independent Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes

“I hope a kid listens to my stuff, I hope there's a change made and at least somebody walks away with: "I'm doing this because I like it." People are going to hate it and that's okay, but I have to do it because my happiness is important too, it's worth it.”

Source : "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.
“You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.”
“Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.”
“I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself”
“There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'”
“For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.”
“On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.”
“You have family", Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That's called family".”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “The Burgess Boys: A Novel”, p.303, Random House

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