#people

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff. ↗

— Tim Vine

#am #because #busy #driven #garden

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke. ↗

— Tim Vine

#always #because #condense #confidence #getting

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning. ↗

— Tom Waits

#anything #else #find #get #just

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone. ↗

— Tom Waits

#better #going #gone #hope #like

You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together. ↗

— Tom Waits

#get #know #like #met #music

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#communism #like #own #people #stuff

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#come #common #common thing #does #i

Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#coming #evolution #i #i think #more

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#been #before #black #cause #correct

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. ↗

— Helmut Walcha

#bach #experiencing #feel #him #life