"There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out."

-- John Wesley Harding

#Book Quotes #Musician Quotes

“Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.”
“I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'”
“In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.”
“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
“I'm interested in dissecting the manipulative qualities that always come when you combine sound with images. We have seen this exploited to various degrees of shamelessness in recent history, and the way this works needs to be exposed.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12); because He humbles Himself for the sake of the soul that is bent down to the ground, that He may even exalt within Himself that which is bent double under a weight of sin?... If so, you must blame the physician for stooping over suffering and putting up with evil smells in order to give health to the sick?”
“All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.”
“Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.”

Source : James L Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.90, Encounter Books

You may also like:

Bob Dylan
Musician
Bruce Springsteen
Musician
Eugene Mirman
Comedian
John Roderick
Musician
John Wesley
Theologian
Kristin Hersh
Singer-songwriter
Rick Moody
Novelist
Todd Barry
Stand-up comedian
Kelly Hogan
Singer