"It scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down, but they'll stop using their brain which is without a doubt the most powerful tool that you could have in any art."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Glenn Branca

#Art Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.”

Source : "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.
“Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.”
“The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”
“All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.”
“I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.”
“And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.”
“Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.”
“Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.”

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