"I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself."

-- Townes Van Zandt

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.”
“We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.”
“If you have zero access to the Internet, that is an offline device.”

Source : "Gamers Without Internet Can Stick With Xbox 360, Says Microsoft" by Luke Reilly, www.ign.com. June 11, 2013.
“What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.”
“Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.”
“In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.”

Source : "Today" Interview, www.today.com. Ocotber 1, 2007.
“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”
“Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is...”

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