"I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally."

-- Ken Burns

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“To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.”

Source : Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1973.
“Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.”
“I can't say I have always been fashionable because we all have hits and misses.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.”

Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”
“I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.”
“You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.”
“Through play, we renew contact with childhood â€“ My art is childlike.”

Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.
“Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.”

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