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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. ↗

— Mos Def

#articulate #artist #everyday #experience #express

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#lead #lots #play #rhythm #times

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#back #been #before #changed #done

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#better #head #lion #lions #sheep

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#doing #need #others #people #rationalizations

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#ahead #because #being #bottom #death

I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#andrew #attended #born #boy #i

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#four #i #lead #lead singer #like

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else. ↗

— Dana Delany

#else #james #put #room #together