"Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off."

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Source : "Live EP". Audio CD, the end, February 20, 2001.

Wesley Willis

#Rocks Quotes #Joy Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.”
“I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.”
“Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space between, outside representation but in the 'presence' of it, we are provoked to laugh. Bernstein alters our language to open a double range that's public and mind at once and inseparable, that is 'Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.' Girly Man is doing it.”
“...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.”
“I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.”
“Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
“The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanityâ€™s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition.”
“Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not particularly real in life, but they're real on the screen. It's the communal aspect of movie-watching.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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