#ore

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#lot #more #music #place #size

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers. ↗

— Steve Vai

#arch #artist #called #favored #fingers

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#banking #believe #i #like #makes

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

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

#guns #more #need #planes #policemen

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#anymore #because #could #did #during

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#any #art #artist #cannot #discuss

We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent. ↗

— Steve Vai

#base #branded #bring #dormant #favored

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#been #before #came #cases #dark