"There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent."

-- Maynard James Keenan

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #Musician Quotes

“Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.”
“Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.”
“The future's comin' at ya' like a freight train.”
“language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.”
“to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free”

Source : Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.235, A&C Black
“If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.”
“When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.”
“When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.”

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