#rap

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#history #life #nothing #read #theory

There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#bands #certain #certain level #compare #continued

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dwell #faulkner #fiction #framework #geography

From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#already #audio #because #boom #digital

And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar. ↗

— Alan Vega

#because #big #big star #dark #different

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#actor #anything #became #been #except

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#because #fade #fears #get #going

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ↗

— John Dryden

#grape #hides #intoxication #like #others

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#books #cannot #completely #different #different subjects

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#biography #days #demise #far #his