"In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die."

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“Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and that was purely to serve the listener because I knew they needed to hear something. But most of the good stuff comes from my life.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.”

Source : Lucy Eldine Parsons (2004). “Freedom, Equality and Solidarity”, Charles H Kerr Publishing Company
“I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.”
“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”
“If youâ€™re in a hole, stop digging.”
“Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.”
“You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.”
“If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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