"Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs."

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Source : Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

Tama J. Kieves

#Struggle Quotes #Butterfly Quotes #Artist Quotes

“The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.”
“What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!”
“You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.”
“As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.”
“When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.”
“Humor is the pensiveness of wit.”
“We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.”

Source : Interview with John Taylor, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 1, 2012.
“No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.”

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