#hen

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum. ↗

— Spike Lee

#curriculum #cutting #degraded #gym #had

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do. ↗

— Spike Lee

#ask #know #people #research #right

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value? ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#around #find #go #hope #how

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that. ↗

— John Legend

#business #day #end #end of the day #few

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. ↗

— John Legend

#because #bunch #come #first #hook

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure. ↗

— John Legend

#authenticity #finding #life #pure #real

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#exactly #figure #first #full-time #full-time job

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#aside #bounds #follows #god #limited

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#authentic self #beautiful #because #just #just be

Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#always #around #ball #beat #because