"When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound."

-- Tom DeLonge

#Writing Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Guitar Quotes

“Art wasn't for selling. Actually, we once did have an offer on Double Negative. Things could be sold actually - everything could be for sale. But we had very few buyers. I think it was Michael Heizer who said that the point was to have a bigger canvas, and I've used that expression quite a bit. But I was thinking today that a canvas has boundaries; it has limit to it. And for earthwork, it was the very openness and feeling that there were no boundaries that made it so exciting.”
“Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.”
“What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.”
“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
“In every situation, no matter what first appears. Find the good that is always there, and change that fear to cheer.”
“Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place”
“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”

Source : Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”
“Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.”

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