"It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you're going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one's going to enjoy."

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Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

Steve Reich

#Artist Quotes #Important Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.”
“Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.”
“Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.”
“Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange.”
“Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.”
“Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are.”
“I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.”

Source : Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”
“Girl, when he gives you kisses twain, use one, and let the other stay; And hoard it, for moons die, red fades, and you may need a kissâ€”some day.”

Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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