"As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition."

-- Jon Landau

#Writing Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Dancing Quotes

“I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.”
“After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
“We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.”
“Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.”
“It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.”
“With the exception of Megadeth, I can't imagine any band we were hesitant about touring with. I mean we liked the original Megadeth, but I can't think of any band we toured with we weren't psyched about.”
“Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.”

Source : Robert South (1842). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.5
“It is better to be a fool than to be dead.”

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