"The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience."

-- James T. Farrell

#Winning Quotes #Media Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.”

Source : "Lou Reed" by Stuart Berman, pitchfork.com. October 28, 2013.
“The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.”
“French people are strange about America, I think.”
“If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.”
“Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.”
“Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. Itâ€™s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . Itâ€™s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some donâ€™t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some donâ€™t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and youâ€™ll never get to read the same book twice.”
“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”

Source : Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”
“We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.”

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