#pro

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession. ↗

— John Huston

#corridor #door #end #feel #flow

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#against #anything #art #artist #ever

We're living proof that nice guys always finish last. ↗

— Matthew Cooper

#finish #finish last #guys #last #living

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#been #better #come #dyslexic #easily

It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#because #caused #dyslexic #hard #kid

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#any #anything #be prepared #compromise #just

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#big #big hit #chet #could #days

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#adventure #also #before #both #curse

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#brought #comes #contact #great #group

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#before #changed #changing #could #direction