"It's very expensive to bring a band to New York."

-- Dee Dee Ramone

#New York Quotes #Band Quotes

“I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal survival tale, your story, is civic engagement. It is a kind of political performance and is really crucial in that storytelling is how the writers connect with people and change. It's how we collect and add to and complicate the master narrative.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.”
“The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.”
“I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.”
“I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.”
“A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.”
“With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.”

Source : "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.
“the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!”

Source : Ruth Draper, Morton Dauwen Zabel (1960). “The art of Ruth Draper: her dramas and characters”

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