"Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

-- Darryl F. Zanuck

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“Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.”
“I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it and you can really just over-think everything. I'll go back and forth all the time.”

Source : "Exclusive: Kurt Vile on the Paranoia and Process Behind His New Record". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 21, 2015.
“It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.”
“I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.”
“I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.”
“Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.”
“The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.”
“Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say.”

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