#rather

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#covered #dancing #david #doing #else

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity. ↗

— Peter Hammill

#believe #continue #contrary #given #homogeneity

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#artist #give #i #message #questions

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#created #elected #except #gaza #government

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#art #back #get #i #making

Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh. ↗

— Franco Harris

#i #pittsburgh #rather #up #would

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement. ↗

— Paul Harris

#been #disagreement #focus #matters #members

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy. ↗

— Noah Hathaway

#comedy #cry #hour #i #movie

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people. ↗

— John Hawkes

#get #i #life #nice #other

When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me. ↗

— Anne Heche

#becomes #coming #disappointed #everybody #me