#dio

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#been #catch #completely #constitution #had

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#down #head #idiots #quite #shot

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#nothing #satisfies #them #unfortunate

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#any #art #artists #find #great

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that. ↗

— George Thorogood

#because #classic #classic rock #come #down

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals. ↗

— Lita Ford

#course #i #lead #next #record

There's a million new people in the studio every day creating new stuff so I really had to be on my toes with this one so I could get it out before somebody else could. ↗

— Willa Ford

#could #creating #day #else #every

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#country music #days #early #full #less

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#just #like #me #studio #therapy

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#always #arithmetic #entertainment #exercises #had