"On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Casey Spooner

#Believe Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Artist Quotes

“When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.”
“Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.”

Source : "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, (Introduction), 2002.
“War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press
“3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.”

Source : "Frank Miller: Occupy Wall Street ‘Louts, Thieves & Rapists,’ Comic Writer Says". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2011.
“You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.89, Head of Zeus
“I don't think I could stab somebody, cause I'm really bad at a Capri Sun.”
“I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.”
“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”

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