Quotes 301 till 320 of 543.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
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Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
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Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.
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Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
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Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
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Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
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Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.
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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
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Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
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Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
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Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
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Remember what the Patriarch King Solomon
Told his harem on the night they'd had a few:
Teetotalum overcoatum asqua scutum atomack
Sonata with tomoto, laringitis, cul de sac.
Translation: If your rhubarb's fallen try and bend it back.
That's a motto for the likes of me and you.Mottoes line 41 -
Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
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Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.
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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
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Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
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