#lis

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#around #born #both #bristol #english

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#bass #bear #because #electric #first

On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#comes #everybody #expect #hand #i

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#another #business #except #i #make

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way. ↗

— Dean Ween

#album #downloading #get #going #i

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ↗

— Simone Weil

#compassion #difficult #him #just #know

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down. ↗

— Simone Weil

#been #cause #down #established #just

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becomes #diseases #hitherto #like #more

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#become #celebrities #computers #culture #distance

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#approach #better #capitalist #century #challenges