"I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations."

-- Madeleine Peyroux

#Intelligent Quotes #Guitar Quotes #People Quotes

“These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.”
“I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.”
“When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.”
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.”
“The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.”
“Open your mind to every form of beauty”
“Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.20, Image Continuum Press
“Real success doesn't care how you get there.”

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