"For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotional sort of thing. I want people to find something out about themselves through my music, something that was inaccessible before, something that they were suppressing, something that they couldn't really confront."

-- Missy Mazzoli

#Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes #People Quotes

“Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.”
“The things one wants the most, are not things after all.”
“In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it.”
“How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.”
“The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.”
“Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.”

Source : William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria
“Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.”
“Play against the Game, not your opponent.”

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