#thing

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#days #doing #gone #great #how

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny. ↗

— David Cross

#funny #i #idea #joke #original

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#aspire #bar #better #easier #gets

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#believe #choice #doing #equality #fight

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either. ↗

— David Cross

#asked #conjunction #either #hbo #i

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner. ↗

— David Cross

#bumper #corner #hate #i #paint

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#find #i #more #nothing #optimism

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#forever #lasts #nothing #vigilant

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#america #be patient #enough #figure #learn

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#everything #eye #having #making #making mistakes