#pen

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#business #concessions #government #happen #insistent

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ↗

— Ray Davies

#groups #i #i think #more #songwriting

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way. ↗

— Ray Davies

#before #believe #differently #done #few

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#book #depends #experience #feeds #great

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#character #door #doors #every #i

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#accept #being #choice #dance #dancers

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. ↗

— Angela Davis

#became #been #death #death penalty #had

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#among #herd #independent #instinct #like

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens. ↗

— Brad Bird

#certain #certain way #happens #leg #little

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require. ↗

— Artur Davis

#going #happens #mitt #mitt romney #next