#kin

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain. ↗

— Ken Burns

#choice #commercial #compromise #conscious #gain

I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#always #audience #book #come #copies

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#city #cool #expect #hip #i

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#cut #dreams #familiar #his #indians

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#computers #does #episode #everyone #foil

The piano is kind of my second instrument. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#kind #piano #second

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#everything #kind #life #music #set

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#been #couple #guitar #i #last

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#i #like #pick #picking #thing

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#actor #african-american #because #board #city