#th

The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that. ↗

— Adrian Smith

#appreciate #band #been #close #eight

Give me the new thing and give it to me now. I don't want that old thing - I've seen it, heard it, bought it, slept with it, loved it, but now I'm bored with the old thing and I'm gagging for the new stuff. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#bought #give #give me #heard #i

Everything is sweetened by risk. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#risk #sweetened

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me. ↗

— Anna Nicole Smith

#i #me #terrible #things #very

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#only #paint #through #you #your

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#sixth-borough #age

I can’t believe he’s making you wait till January for an appointment.” “I could threaten to bomb the school. That’d get me in quicker. ↗

— Jeannine Garsee

#snark #therapy #funny

We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp. ↗

— Bubba Smith

#after #back #camp #earlier #go

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school. ↗

— Chad Smith

#band #class #could #elementary #every

The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do. ↗

— Chad Smith

#chili #everybody #fast #framework #hear