"I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad sex - that might inspire a different kind of song."

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Source : Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.

Lady Saw

#Song Quotes #Sex Quotes #Writing Quotes

“To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.”

Source : "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.
“One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.”
“It's a folk singers job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people”
“One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.”
“Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomenon.”
“I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.”
“Hire character. Train skill.”
“There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.”

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