"I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days."

-- Billy Connolly

#Two Quotes #Los Angeles Quotes

“I don't know where genre really comes from. I grew up with parents who were artists, and I was always interested in what music they were listening to and open to all kinds of genres. So it's nice to see that whole families come to my concerts. I like having an element in my music that is inclusive rather than exclusive, without being pop for the sake of it. It's not important to me how many people listen to it - it's more wonderful that it brings people who wouldn't usually meet into the same room.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.”
“My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.”
“Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.”
“That's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.”
“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
“Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.”
“There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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