#co

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#collaborators #great #history #lot #lyricist

Elektra has no control over the live show, at least. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#elektra #least #live #over #show

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#better way #complicated #dangerous #dangerously #facts

It's cool to go places where working people are happy. ↗

— Neil Young

#go #happy #people #places #where

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#best #ever #gives #must #nature

I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#aspects #breaks #build #first #first of all

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#allowed #band #best #could #dead

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#breaking #count #down #every #eyes

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#anyone #around #became #discovered #filmmaking

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private. ↗

— Amy Tan

#aesthetic #art #become #craft #first