"If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben Ratliff asked it, and he came up with aesthetic categories. That's not what I would say. What's left are communities who make music together, or among whom music circulates. That's it."

-- Vijay Iyer

#Community Quotes #Together Quotes #Aesthetic Quotes

“Elesa slept with Mark and Mark slept with Tina. Tina slept with Javier, the first time he seen her. Javier slept with Loopy, and Loopy slept with Rob. Rob slept with Lisa who slept with Steve...”
“No matter where you're going it's the wrong place”
“The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: A Long Way from Twin Peaks, Joan Chen Gets Sent Down for 'Xiu-Xiu'". Interview with Augusta Palmer, www.indiewire.com. May 6, 1999.
“Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.”
“The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, forÂ language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collectingÂ memory”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.”
“As a driver you enjoy winning races and, if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip-and-tuck stuff.”

Source : "Allan McNish looks forward to hard fight for 2013 endurance title" by Giles Richards, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2012.
“Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.”

Source : Lorna Luft (1999). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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