6/1/08

" .... tell the truth and you'll have half a house, but it's worth it." Joni Mitchell

 

21/11/07

"I can't wear no suit and tie.
Gotta let my freak flag fly."

Jim White

 

4/6/07

"The version of ourselves we present to the world bears no resemblance to the truth. If we knew the truth about each other we could take no-one seriously. There isn't one of us who could afford to be caught. That's all life is. Trying not to be found out."

William Donaldson

17/5/06

"Whether you're an actor, musician, author, playwright, everyone you meet seems to have the word 'no' tattooed across their heads. People don't want you to succeed.....Morrissey has written songs about it." Richard E. Grant

 

17/1/06

“ ….. I’ve never felt that happiness is the goal of life.” Ron Mael of Sparks

 

 

 

24/3/05

“What sort of God does that fellow have, do you think?” Lucia Joyce (of a bear in Zurich zoo)

2/2/05

"......the 80s were heinous." Julian Cope

3/10/04

"In Paradise the wise are the footstools of the beautiful …." Isaac Bashevis Singer

1/9/04

"I am unable to differentiate between music and tears." Friedrich Nietzsche

3/7/04

"In a world without melancholy nightingales would belch." E.M. Cioran

7/6/04

"Writing songs means that one must pay attention to life" Andrew Loog Oldham

"No relief will come, you'll really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders." Jeff Buckley

"....Almost all music helps. All the stuff that surrounds music is the stuff that can be destructive. But that's no big fucking news." Jeff Tweedy

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""I say in speeches that a plausible mission for artists is to make people
appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any
artists who pulled that off. I reply, "The Beatles did"".

Kurt Vonnegut

 

"I have stayed a child all my life”

Spike Milligan

 

"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals....".

Thoreau

 

"When we are no longer children, we are already dead"

Constantin Brancusi

 

"It's not the length of your life that counts, it's the intensity"

Jacques Brel

 

"The past is never dead. It’s not even past."

William Faulkner

 

 

"The best things in life last at least three minutes"

Patricia Highsmith

 

"The man who cannot visualise a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot."

Andre Breton