#in

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#ambitious #determined #get #i #knew

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ↗

— John Locke

#always #any #because #common #new

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #beat #engage #exist #lyric

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation. ↗

— Brian Eno

#band #deal #enough #front #how

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #began #behind #classical #dad

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#educating #i #i think #methods #participation

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#action #agenda #course #devious #discussion

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #become #being #community #consciousness

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. ↗

— John Ensign

#believe #building #community #country #first

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#always #crazy #fine #insane #insane people