"I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things."

-- Eugene Chadbourne

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“This moment will just be another story someday.”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?”
“I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.”

Source : Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.
“I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.”
“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”
“During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.”
“I had four different colors of hats, one of which was pink. I just got on a roll with the pink hat. So what started out as a superstition grew into a tradition and an easy way for my family to find me at tournaments because I am the only one with cojones big enough to wear a pink hat.”
“Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.”

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