"I am telling you what I knowâ€”words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Writing Quotes #Musician Quotes

“Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.”
“I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.”

Source : Quoted in John Burke, Rogue's Progress: The Fabulous Adventures of Wilson Mizner (1975)
“The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.”
“Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.”
“The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her...”
“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”
“Every good startup is a cult. And it's really hard to create a cult if you are sharing space with people. Because a cult means you think you are better than every other startup, you have a special way of doing things that's better than anyone else in the world.”

Source : "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by, genius.com. November 6, 2014.
“It's a despicable world we're living in now. It's the most disgusting time for music in terms of big wigs, guys who like playing the game. It's hard to get your stuff heard. I find it really annoying actually. I think my music would appeal to a lot of people but being on Warp in the States it's really hard to get radio play and exposure. We need to push this internet revolution forward quickly.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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