"Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation."

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Source : Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”

Michael Ayrton

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“When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!”
“Because I couldn't go for three.”
“I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way.”
“Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.”

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“In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins... We should question, speak out and work for a better society with a whole different definition of what is deemed a successful artistic life.”
“For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.67, Vintage
“Everything is figureautable”

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