"To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel."

-- Don Ellis

#Music Quotes #Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.”
“Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.”
“The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.”

Source : Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.
“It was all I lived for, to play baseball.”
“The people need to feel the music. That's what's so important, and that's what is missing. You have to let the audience feel you, you have to let them feel the love, feel the rock 'n' roll, feel the energy.”

Source : "Phil Spector, Obama fan" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2008.
“Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.”
“The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay”
“Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.”

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