#ck

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Tom Waits

#belong #call #dues #feel #like

For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#any #been #best #bland #chemotherapy

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#because #distributors #film #film industry #filmmakers

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#classical #everything #get #glam #great

Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#back #band #been #coming #even

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#been #before #black #cause #correct

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#biography #body #individual #island #joins

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

#as far as #attack #conservative #estimates #everything

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time. ↗

— George Wald

#coming #faces #information #keep #keeps

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#factory #hope #lipstick #make #our