"Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard."

-- Tori Amos

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“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”

Source : Jules Verne (1969). “20,000 leagues under the sea”, Signet Classics
“If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.”
“Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source for their songs admit that the phenomenon of having them simply arrive feels magical.”
“People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.”

Source : "The 1975's Matt Healy on That Time Usher Mistook Him for Skrillex". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2016.
“Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.”

Source : "Q&A – Barry Munday’s Patrick Wilson and Judy Greer on Losing Their Hearts (and Their Private Parts)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. September 2010.
“You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.”
“My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.”
“I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary â€“ not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.6, University of Texas Press

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