#real

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country. ↗

— Joan Blades

#i #optimism #politics #real #real sense

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#bit #cello #give #guitar #i

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable. ↗

— Tom DeLonge

#become #boring #cliche #disgusting #feel

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience. ↗

— Tom DeLonge

#artist #crazy #creates #excited #experience

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#each #got #hit #make #makes

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#like #mess #playing #really #recording

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#away #being #connecting #exactly #great

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic. ↗

— Susan Blackmore

#basic #certainly #colored #down #everything

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator. ↗

— Susan Blackmore

#analogy #biggest #biggest mistakes #concept #extend

When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#anywhere #around #because #doing #elvis