"I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd."

-- John Prine

#America Quotes #Odd Quotes #Songwriting Quotes

“Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how it contains a paean of praise for the way capitalism and the bourgeoisie have both enriched the human powers of production and also enabled us to see with clear vision the nature of human society and human history.”
“Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.”
“The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.”
“The classical music world is so snobbish.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm completely perplexed how someone who has most of the mainstream media for Hillary Clinton, well all the mainstream media, well most of the media for her, she's got a sitting president - a sitting First Lady far more popular than she'll ever supposed to be, a former president also her husband, the sitting vice president, a thousand people working in Brooklyn, she has all these states locked up and she can't crack 50% and stay there.”
“I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.”
“I think very highly of myself. I think I'm capable of a lot of things on the field.”
“About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.”

Source : "Are Microbes The Next Frontier?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 12, 2014.

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