"Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll."

-- Sting

#Growing Up Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Rock N Roll Quotes

“Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.”
“It's not a lot, but we have 8,000 people following us. I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else. It's a true honor, and it might sound intense, but it's one of the most rewarding parts of the songwriting experience.”
“A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.”
“Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.”
“Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.”
“...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.”

Source : Diane Keaton (2011). “Then Again”, p.240, Random House
“Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. ... From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life all movement and rhythm time and light, color and mood in short, all reality in Form and Thought.”

Source : "Hans Hofmann". Book by James Yohe, 2000.
“There is nothing you can't achieve if you help other people get what they want”

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