"Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute."

-- Keith Jarrett

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“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
“The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “Thoughts about Art”, p.158
“People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.”
“We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.”

Source : "George Galloway investigated by police for saying Bradford an 'Israel-free zone'" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2014.
“If you want to change people by talking about God, then there is only one way: instead of teaching God, you must live God. Because: "teaching" God is unthinkable in any other way than the way you would teach love or poetry. You teach love only through love, poetry only through writing poetry, faith in God only through a contagious way of trusting.”

Source : "Jesus von Nazareth". Book by Eugen Drewermann, 1996.
“We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.32, SUNY Press
“There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.”
“No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.”

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