"Donâ€™t ask me why I obsessively look to rock â€™nâ€™ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess itâ€™s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since."

-- Lester Bangs

#Beautiful Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Rock N Roll Quotes

“Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.”

Source : "Channeling" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. September 03, 2009.
“I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.”
“Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.”
“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”
“My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is the central lesson: that diverse cultures can make a country richer and stronger.”

Source : "Decoding history: A World War II Navajo Code Talker in his own words". CNN Interview, inamerica.blogs.cnn.com. December 4, 2011.
“It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.”

Source : "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.
“My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor”
“To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.”

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