#rum

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cartoonist #comics #crumb #decided #going

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#beyond #cleveland #crumb #doing #his

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#how #instrument #jazz #know #must

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain. ↗

— William Petty

#gain #house #instrument #means #nature

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly. ↗

— Liz Phair

#frankly #grandiose #how #i #identity

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#born #character #created #creation #death

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman. ↗

— George Plimpton

#favorite #her #kate #monologue #relationship

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#birthday #called #cream #drum #free

The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#buildings #choice #city #convenience #decided

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today. ↗

— Steve Vai

#balance #calling #else #everything #express