#red

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#constantly #culmination #death #out #record

When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#clothes #did #get #hammered #i

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came. ↗

— James Stockdale

#backfired #boss #came #demanded #i

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. ↗

— James Stockdale

#blood #circulation #did #double #fifteen

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. ↗

— James Stockdale

#air #another #bombs #december #eighteenth

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#being #being quiet #completely #different #discovered

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#discovered #encounter #etc #felt #first

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#eye #heart #his #how #knows

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#files #fired #firstly #forth #hired

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#before #enamored #i #melodies #my own