"Itâ€™s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Song Quotes #Made Quotes #Listening To Music Quotes

“I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.”
“If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.”

Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.
“The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.”
“There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.402, Macmillan
“Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.”
“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? Thatâ€™s the feeling. (T.E. Lawrence to artist Eric Kennington, May 1935 )”

Source : Letter to Eric Kennington, May 06, 1935.
“To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground. Actually, what we need is the exact opposite of what GMOs give us. We have to empower farmers to grow food for themselves and plant and grow their own seeds and use practices to deal with weeds and the need for fertility, not from purchased products like a seed or a chemical, but from their own farms, from their own knowledge and skill sets.”

Source : "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.
“With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.”

Source : "Norwood Fisher and director Chris Metzler discuss upcoming Fishbone documentary". Interview with Tom Santilli, www.axs.com. December 14, 2011.

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