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Any time I make a record it’s followed by a painting period. It’s good crop rotation.
Joni Mitchellborn 1943Woman of Heart and Mind: A Life Story (2003)
- Music
Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
Kevin Spaceyborn 1959Oscar acceptance speech, Best Supporting Actor, The Usual Suspects (25 March 1996)
- Comedy
- Movies
There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.
Václav Havel1936–2011Living in Truth (1986), “Six Asides About Culture”
I don’t think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.
Martin Scorseseborn 1942Scorsese on Scorsese (1989), ed. David Thompson and Ian Christie
- Movies
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Tristia, Book I, poem 1, line 39
- Poetry
Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that’s what gives something its individuality.
Peter Gabrielborn 1950The Kate Bush Story (2014), On Kate Bush
- Failure
I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be.
Akira Kurosawa1910–1998On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79
- Beauty
- Movies
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
Akira Kurosawa1910–1998Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
To be a frontman you have to be half very driven and half a total knob. I like to think I’m both.
Chris Martinborn 1977On a Time Out London interview, June 8-15, 2005.
- Comedy
- Music
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
William Morris1834–1896The Beauty of Life (1880)
- Beauty
Real warriors like William Burroughs or Leonard Cohen or Wallace Stevens examine the hollow as well as anybody; they get in there, look far into the dark, and yet come out with poetry.
KKKen Kesey1935–2001The Paris Review interview (1994)
- Courage
- Poetry
There ain’t a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.
Bruce Springsteenborn 1949Bruce Springsteen Talking (2004)
- Family
- Music
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
Bruce Springsteenborn 1949Bruce Springsteen Talking (2004)
- Music
Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego’s defenses and into the open mind.
John Mayerborn 1977Esquire magazine (November 1, 2004)
- Ideas
- Music
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
John Mayerborn 1977Mayer, John (2004). “Jimi Hendrix” RollingStone.com (accessed March 21, 2007)
- Failure
- Music