#sm

I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#available #benefit #both #concerts #did

Since the music industry cracked and fell apart, gasping for the cash flow it had come to expect, much re-thinking has been the order of the day. It is a fine time to be a musician. Like walking through Sodom and Gomorrah while it is still smoking, on your way to the next gig. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#been #cash #come #cracked #day

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die. ↗

— Brian Sibley

#chronic #deal #die #great #great deal

That's what I do... Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke... I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that's my twist. ↗

— Beanie Sigel

#coke #drink #i #i do #people

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#fascism #never #place #revolution #took

We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#because #businesses #economy #everyone #got

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#award #blame #criticism #discriminate #duties

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. ↗

— Neil Simon

#like #mecca #new #new york #smells

People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart. ↗

— Howard Simons

#calls #funny #get #just #much

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#children #cold #desert #desolate #down