"As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Ira Kaplan

#Song Quotes #People Quotes #Voting Quotes

“Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously or not, they endeavor to win us over by charm. If an essayist can not only charm but write the unforgettable sentence, one that reveals the heart in a few words, I'm her slave.”
“A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.”
“I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.”
“What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.”
“Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.”
“Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.”
“It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.”
“Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.”

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