"We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music."

-- Andy Partridge

#Art Quotes #Want Quotes #Ignored Quotes

“Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.”
“We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.”
“When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.
“Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.”
“I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.”
“We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love”

Source : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”
“If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.”
“It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.”

Source : "New Warning Labels: Ruining Smokers’ Days?" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. June 21, 2011.

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