#mo

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move. ↗

— Al Jardine

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All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity. ↗

— Derek Jarman

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I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

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A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#beautiful #game #games #most #most beautiful

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#beacon #before #father #film #journal

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#culture #definition #i #i think #intellectuals

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#came #cinema #found #get #i

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#bar #beaten #beautiful #comes #even

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#because #desire #early #express #interesting