"Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it will force you into making decisions in the interest of earning your keep, as opposed to the interest of the thing itself."

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Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

John Maus

#Decision Quotes #Earning Quotes #Force Quotes

“I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.55, Canongate Books
“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”
“How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?”
“Eventually I became involved with somebody, and I was fired”
“The next General Election isn't about electing yet another Labour or Tory MP to join the hundreds of other Labour or Tory MPs in London. It will be about electing a candidate who will put solving people's problems before scoring political points. Someone who will fight for the future of our communities here in Clwyd West.”
“Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-madeâ€”the panic, the violence that would ensue. Thatâ€™s where the end would come. A typhoon kills a few hundred people, does a few billion in damage, and what do we do?â€ Erskine interlocked his fingers. â€œWe come together. We put the pieces back. But a terroristâ€™s bomb.â€ He frowned. â€œA terroristâ€™s bomb does the same damage, and it throws the world into turmoil.â€ He spread his hands apart like an explosion going off. â€œWhen thereâ€™s only God to blame, we forgive him. When itâ€™s our fellow man, we must destroy him.”
“Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!”
“I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.”

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