"I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me."

-- Will Oldham

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes

“Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.”
“For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.”
“You showed me everything was black cause my eyes were closed.”
“For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.”
“Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.”
“My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner.”

Source : "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this unforeseen aesthetic and ethnic debasement of their values came about, or why monuments have not adapted to the times. Perhaps, instead of evoking authentic religious, patriotic or mystical sentiments, they evoke only the customary ersatz for these sentiments and have suffered the fate of becoming sentimental.”
“Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.”

Source : Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.173, Open Road Media

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