#ok

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up. ↗

— Bela Fleck

#beverly #blew #earl #head #hearing

That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#art #awkward #because #between #bridge

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#having #i #like #look #people

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#could #feels #his #invests #model

Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe. ↗

— John Conyers

#american #american lives #around #blamed #budgetary

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#did #film #fun #i #integrity

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#emotions #flowers #look #neither #nor

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#discover #his #ideally #order #own

Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke. ↗

— Dane Cook

#great #joke #nothing #than

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad. ↗

— Coolio

#back #bad #being #chance #got