#ear

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#change #change the world #critics #early #failed

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#constantly #culmination #death #out #record

We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#ago #american #band #country #distinctly

When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#clothes #did #get #hammered #i

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. ↗

— James Stockdale

#air #another #bombs #december #eighteenth

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#black #came #children #cleaning #common

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#cologne #electronic #electronic music #i #kinds

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#body #breathing #heartbeat #identify #repetition

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers. ↗

— Richard H. Stoddard

#desire #flowers #grow #human #like

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#before #could #difficult #even #felt