#ants

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#chasing #everybody #everything #gear #identical

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage! ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#backstage #because #close #getting #i

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#capitalism #peasants #serious #tendency #toward

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#company #decision #facing #learn #make

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#cruise #fraught #heroic #i #just

I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#comes #duet #i #just #plays

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#belong #bigger #everyone #follow #follow your heart

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#care #craves #creativity #destiny #diligence

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#bad #belongs #contract #discover #doomed

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles. ↗

— Sara Gilbert

#angeles #bars #city #galleries #going