"If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!"

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Carlisle Floyd

#Successful Quotes #Artist Quotes #Compliment Quotes

“DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott.”
“I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from Apr 02, 2016
“No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.”
“With how much ease believe we what we wish!”
“Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.”
“Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid”
“Wonderingâ€™s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.”
“Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.”

Source : Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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