"The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language."

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Stanley Kunitz

#Perfect Quotes #Trying Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hans Zimmer from Oct 23, 2011
“Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.”

Source : "Jake Shimabukuro On His Ukulele Heroes, ‘Rolling In The Deep,’ And His Dream Song To Cover". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.
“But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.”
“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.”
“I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.”
“It's a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.”
“All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?”
“If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can't rob them of that. I'm not going to try and change their mind. Something's been triggered in them to react so emotionally.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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