"I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically."

-- Pete Seeger

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“Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.”
“There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”

Source : "Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze in October, Volume 59 (pp. 3-7), www.jstor.org. Winter 1992.
“I worry about Bieber, man. That kidâ€™s wildly talented. I hope he doesnâ€™t fall down into the usual ways of young kids because itâ€™s so hard for someone to be responsible when theyâ€™re not asked to be.”
“If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?”
“I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.”
“Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.”
“Unfortunately, some scientists behave like preachers, delivering sermons to people. What this approach ignores is the fact that there are many threats in our world that must be weighed against one another. If I'm driving my car and find myself speeding toward an obstacle, I can't simple yank the wheel to the side without first checking to see if I'll instead be driving straight into a crowd of people. Climate researchers cannot and should not take this process of weighing different factors out of the hands of politics and society.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary â€“ and the audience feels it.”

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