"Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself."

-- Jo Nesbo

#Thinking Quotes #Artist Quotes #Together Quotes

“I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.”
“When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.”
“Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.”
“A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.28, Lulu.com
“[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.”
“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
“If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.”
“Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.”

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