"Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?"

-- Rufus Wainwright

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.”
“I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.”
“My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.”
“A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.”

Source : "Margaret Atwood on a voyage to the world's end" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.
“The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.”

Source : "US teenager faces jail for film piracy". www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2005.
“You know, your clothes may say disco, but your eyes say rock n roll.”

Source : "Detroit Rock City". Carl V. Dupré, www.imdb.com. 1999.
“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.”
“I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects”

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