#r

The warrior is Here, Now. ↗

— Dan Millman

#change

I wish that I was looking into your eyes ↗

— Katy Perry

#music

We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity. We would call forth in our minds the image of Paul Revere, riding through the American night, petitioning the people to wake up, to take up arms. We too would take up arms, the arms of our generation, the electric guitar and the microphone. ↗

— Patti Smith

#music

Oh, come on Em." He stopped walking and looked me in the eyes. His own were dark and shiny. "You know how I feel about you," he muttered. "I do?" He stepped closer and whispered, "When you're around, music plays in my head." My eyes welled. "Music," I repeated softly. "Well, you know." He grinned. "It's the Jaws theme. Da dum. Da dum. ↗

— Jennifer Jabaley

#humour #lipstick #music

I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. I remember when you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said "who knows the valley song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I watched you going home everyday. Everyday ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#music

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#music

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#marriage #men #change

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else. ↗

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

#rich-dad #change

There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#writing #music

For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#music #music-criticism #music