And Quotes

Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end?

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.

When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.

I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

Books are like my one and only joy.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

I will always pay respect and homage to my early years, because that's what gave me the initial push to go on and do what it is I do. That's where I learned the love and respect for music.

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

I have always followed my instincts when it comes to music and life in general. They were telling me very loudly that it was time for John D., Hallmark and I to get back together.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money.

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.