"Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting."

-- Nile Rodgers

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Genius Quotes

“There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.”
“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”

Source : Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.40, Macmillan
“I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Hip-hop is the last true folk art.”
“Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.”
“Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”

Source : "11 Things Joan Rivers Taught Us About Life" by Erin Weinger, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2014.
“Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder”
“It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.”

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