"Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny."

-- Al Yankovic

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.”
“Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.”
“Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.”

Source : "SIR MIX-A-LOT: The Forward-Thinking Hip-Hop Icon Is Getting Back Into The Entertainment Industry". Interview with Nick Hughes, www.businessinsider.com. June 22, 2011.
“Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you , and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, "Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people.”

Source : "Radical Honesty". lesswrong.com. September 10, 2007.
“To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.”

Source : James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins
“It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.”

Source : Gary Marcus (2009). “Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There's a difference between climate & weather, moron!”
“If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out...”

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