#om

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#bronx #childhood #college #complete #early

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. ↗

— Ken Burns

#facts #i #music #photographs #research

I had a feeling that Ben Lancaster had just tattooed himself onto my soul and the thing about tattoos? They were painful to remove. ↗

— Julie Bale

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-romance #beauty

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. ↗

— Ken Burns

#becomes #careful #complexity #composition #drama

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl. ↗

— Ken Burns

#end #end of the day #identify #irritant #know

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

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood. ↗

— Ken Burns

#buck #come #flood #going #happened

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.' ↗

— Steve Burns

#computer #crazy #drummer #good #guitar

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City. ↗

— Steve Burns

#bother #calm #calm down #city #cleaner

Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago. ↗

— Steve Vai

#brilliance #domain #fascinated #inspired #instrument