#the

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#already #band #committed #crew #dates

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#book #diaries #door #going #happens

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#afternoon #any #come #dad #different

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#absolute truth #every #great #hack #makes

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#again #being #day #every #every day

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#farewell #four #friend #her #interview

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#i #independent #movie #producers #root

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#irrelevant #lives #our #our lives #shall

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more. ↗

— Robert Welch

#centers #facts #feeling #into #more

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. ↗

— Robert Welch

#comes #democracy #government #greek #literally