#tis

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#fame #get #hope #how #initial

I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#art #artist #different #different level #i

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic. ↗

— David Sylvian

#artist #authentic #freeze #moment #often

The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#american #attacked #believe #bombing #british

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#canoe #canvas #civilisation #exquisite #find

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#clarify #colleagues #discussion #his #persuade

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run. ↗

— Ice T

#everything #helps #long #long run #new

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors. ↗

— Ice T

#could #culture #dj #doors #had

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#anti-semitism #cut #noxious #out #place

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#cultured #friends #introduced #lot #me