"Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons."

-- Matthew Collings

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“I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them with a minimum of direction, and you just let the music happen. I've seen it work time and time again.”

Source : Source: revive-music.com
“To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.”
“If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.”
“I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Just do a thing and donÂ’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success.”
“You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.”
“Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.”
“Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.”

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