"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what youâ€™re doing."

-- Richard Hamming

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“I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.”
“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”
“If you look at the gifted sportsman, like Tiger Woods, or Ryan Giggs, you can see how they have been built up to be so much more than one person could ever be.”
“The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.”

Source : Arnold Mindell (1995). “Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity”, Not Applicable
“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”
“Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.”

Source : Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
“It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band. They have a lot of noise, they have a viola, they have a drummer that's standing up, certainly they have influenced my guitar playing, but hopefully after 12 records you start to sound like yourself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“At least you donâ€™t need a prescription for tequila.”

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