"When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards."

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Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

#People Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Buying Quotes

“You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.”
“The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.”
“I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.”
“I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.”
“there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.”
“Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.”
“We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2015). “Basil: A Story of Modern Life (Unabridged): From the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, Armadale, The Moonstone, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe, The Law and The Lady…”, p.9, e-artnow
“Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors.”

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