"You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either."

-- Van Dyke Parks

#Thinking Quotes #Deception Quotes #Musician Quotes

“Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.”
“The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.”

Source : Interview with Filip Vukcevic, www.ign.com. September 19, 2007.
“I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.”
“I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there this discrimination between men and women?" In our culture, the man should be outside and the woman should be at home. I wanted to study, or meet my friends, and I couldn't. And I felt very different.”

Source : "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, nytlive.nytimes.com. May 21, 2015.
“The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything in terms of polarities - two ends of the same continuum. Young/old, male/female, individuality/conformity, work/play, freedom/constraint, right/left, day/night, life/death, rational/emotional, and so on.”
“I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.”

Source : "Somebody to Love?". Book by Grace Slick, 1998.
“Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.”
“Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.”

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