"So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff."

-- Jackson Browne

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Gabriel Quotes

“Schizophrenia demons live in my head.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
“I know who I am. And I know I'm a good person.”
“If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was â€œA Secret Garden.”
“America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.”
“Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?”
“In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.”
“The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.”

Source : 1984 In the NewYorker,10 Dec.

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