#om

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. ↗

— Steve Vai

#been #breathing #commitment #common #constructed

The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#always #being #better #boring #come

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.' ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#away #drift #enough #far #gradually

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #does #even #everything #express

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#beauty

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#good #good reason #hits #i #i do

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#colorado #get #i #i can #just

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#feelings #good #good music #motivated #mysterious

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#else #mind #quality #someone #taste

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. ↗