"All language is an aspiration to music."

-- Steve Almond

#Language Quotes #Aspiration Quotes

“I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist, I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base." Fly Louis sneakers, Purple Tape coming out the speakers, Bumped into my high school teachers, They said I wouldn't be nothing, sitting on the bleachers. Now I'm sitting in the Phantom, trynna figure out the features. I'm a big fish now, I watch for the leeches.”
“I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.”

Source : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.
“If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.”
“I don't really have a dream collaboration.”
“This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.”
“Lets just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.”
“If you can't stop thinking about your job, in a positive way that energizes you, then you're probably where you're meant to be.”
“Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

You may also like:

Aimee Bender
Novelist
Cheryl Strayed
Novelist
Dan Chaon
Writer
Jim Shepard
Author
Jonathan Lethem
Novelist
Julianna Baggott
Novelist
Matthew Zapruder
Poet
Rick Moody
Novelist
Stephen Elliott
Author