"Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs."

-- Robert Wyatt

#Song Quotes #Character Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.”
“A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror”
“Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.”
“The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.”
“The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.”
“The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled.”
“Life is too short not to say how you feel to the people you love.”

Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2011). “Letters From Home”, p.241, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.”

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