"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

-- Warren Zevon

#Music Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wells Quotes

“If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.”
“A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but only one was in the mind of the artist. Some artists say to make the work readable for the public is an artistâ€™s responsibility, but I donâ€™t agree with that. The only responsibility to be absolutely truthful to the self. My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.”
“Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need”
“Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user.”
“Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”
“It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press
“We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.”
“Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.”

Source : Eugenio Montale (1976). “Poet in our time”, Calder Publications

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