"Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!"

-- Roy Ayers

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“The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful.”

Source : Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”
“I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it's a chance to do two different voices.”
“Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.”
“There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.”
“I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.”
“I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.”

Source : "Mo Rocca measures the 2012 race in laughs" by Alexander Trowbridge, www.politico.com. September 12, 2012.
“I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are species and whole lineages that go extinct - but basically novels and plays, and so on, will continue to exist. Jokes, as the lowest-cost form of narrative, will certainly continue to exist. They're a bit like microbes in the biological world. They're low-cost and they're everywhere. They're the most successful form of life, even though they're not the ones we think about most.”
“It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.”

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