"If the songs were in lumps, then you would expect to understand what was going on in the plot. Which is not a realistic goal. And also the instrumentation is different for every show, so it's more varied sonically. And people are free to make up their own plots, of course. There are pretty dense and complicated plots, and they're simple songs."

-- Stephin Merritt

#Song Quotes #Simple Quotes #People Quotes

“You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really â€” except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.”
“Keep your working power at its maximum.”

Source : William Rounseville Alger (1881). “The School of Life”
“I make music for the hips, not the head.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.”
“People do accuse me of being just decorative or an escapist - well I am. That's what I do. I am other things as well. I transcend the song and give it a different meaning.”
“I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear ...”
“I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties--or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.”
“Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”

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