"If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed."

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Source : "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

Lyle Lovett

#Song Quotes #Artistic Quotes #Anthem Quotes

“I realize the importance of retelling those stories is so that, one, we don't forget what our ancestors had to do so we can be where we are, and two, to just educate the newer generation. I'm being educated by all these films ['Race' and 'Selma'] and the things I've had the opportunity to be a part of, and kids even younger than me are being educated, too. It's important to make sure those stories never die.”
“Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.”
“Falling is one of the ways of moving.”
“A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodesâ€” and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.”
“...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.”
“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
“The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.”
“I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.”

Source : Source: blog.yupnet.org

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