"I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible."

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“The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.”
“My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences”
“The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.”
“I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.”
“Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.”

Source : Sir Herbert Edward Read, Herbert Read (1994). “A One-man Manifesto and Other Writings for Freedom Press”, Freedom Press (CA)
“As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of the multitude; and, as the humble birds carol blithely round our dwellings, so the meeker lays of the muse linger tunefully about the heart.”
“I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.”
“I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.”

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