#tag

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#backstage #believe #both #canadian #festival

'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it. ↗

— Jerry Ferrara

#almost #arguably #around #best #block

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage. ↗

— Cher

#entertainer #i #i do #i think #myself

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#across #agree #certain #country #criticisms

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#go #guitar #i #i can #i love

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#else #felt #how #i #just

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#between #books #calls #gray #gray area

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#cultural #deficit #even #history #human

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey. ↗

— Chris Christie

#balance #billion #budget #budget deficit #california

I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section. ↗

— Eric Church

#because #big #crutch #getting #happening