"The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it."

-- Ben Harper

#Crush Quotes #Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.”
“As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.”
“I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!”
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
“Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.”
“Iâ€™ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.”
“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.”

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