"It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admire Bob Dylan's live performances - he's steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that you really can't recognize them until halfway through. It's like, I DARE you to sing along."

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Source : Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2010.

Amy Argetsinger

#Song Quotes #Years Quotes #Mixing Quotes

“I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is cool.”
“Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if only for a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again.”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
“Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?”
“There must be repressed truth even in lies.”

Source : Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1989). “The Madman and the Nun & The Crazy Locomotive: Three Plays, Including The Water Hen”, Hal Leonard Corporation
“Know what people love to eat, prepare it yourself with love and serve them”
“Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.132, Macmillan
“All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.”

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