#ate

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#blake #book #certainly #first #his

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#degree #gave #get #got #i

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#bar #beaten #beautiful #comes #even

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#because #desire #early #express #interesting

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#best time #difficult #during #exciting #i

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#dozen #honest #hundred #intelligent #know

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#because #biggest #career #did #down

Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#career #done #experience #feelings #head

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#except #feels #free #oyster #pearl