“I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.”
“Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for”
“Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?”
“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.”
“Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.”
“I'm tired of having to consult a group of old white guys about my black girl craft. They don't even know what they're listening for or to.”
Source : "Azealia Banks 'begging to be dropped' by Universal" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2014.
“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.”
“You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until it's great. And if you don't go for great, you won't end up with good. You've got to go beyond your wildest dreams because the exigencies of filmmaking are going to smash you into the ordinary.”
Aeschylus Dramatist
Aristotle Philosopher
Herodotus Historian
Hesiod Poet
Ovid Poet
Plato Philosopher
Socrates Philosopher
Sophocles Playwright
Virgil Poet
