"Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't."

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Eddie Van Halen

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Play Quotes

“Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.”
“Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.”
“Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.”
“You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this”

Source : "Garry Marshall finds a new 'Princess'" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. August 3, 2001.
“The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.”
“As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.”
“We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.”
“If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.”

Source : Robert Ruark (1957). “The Old Man and The Boy”

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