"By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music."

-- Chuck Eddy

#Giving Up Quotes #Rap Quotes #80s Quotes

“I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.”
“Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.”
“Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press
“Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.”
“When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.”
“Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.”

Source : Rex Brandt (1984). “Seeing with a painter's eye”
“To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.”
“A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.”

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