"I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it."

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Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

Ian Astbury

#Artist Quotes #Careers Quotes #Differences Quotes

“We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.”

Source : Sandra Gulland (2002). “The Last Great Dance on Earth: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.”
“A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.”
“Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him to be so; it is a problem of attitude to contemporary society and culture in relation to the basic human problem of learning to be human.”

Source : John Blacking (1974). “How Musical is Man?”, p.104, University of Washington Press
“â€‹Life is a series of highs and lows. The trick is to tip the balance in your favor by following your heart and taking some risks.”
“If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.”
“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
“I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.”

Source : "Theater owners to studios: Make better films". www.today.com. March 15, 2006.

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