"The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else."

-- Barry McGuire

#Next Steps Quotes #Roger Quotes #Influence Quotes

“There are no other factors that cause me stress when I get inside the Octagon. I guess that's an advantage of getting older.”
“The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.”
“I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better.”
“When I grow up I want to be an old woman.”

Source : Song: When I Grow Up, Album: Short Sharp Shocked
“Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead...”
“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.”
“I did not come to NASA to make history.”
“The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now thereâ€™s a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.”

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