"I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak."

-- Karl Kraus

#People Quotes #Speak Quotes

“When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.”
“Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting sense of confidence, peace, and well-being. Among sentient beings, human beings appear to stand alone in their ability to recognize the necessity to forge a bond between reason, emotion, and their instinct to survive, and in doing so create a universe-not only for themselves and the human generations that follow, but also for all creatures who feel pain, fear and suffering-in which we are all able to coexist contentedly and peaceably.”
“Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.”
“But I'm gon' get mine more than I get got.”
“Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.”

Source : Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin
“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
“I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.”

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