#tone

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment." ↗

— Andy Warhol

#always #blank #epitaph #figment #i

It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#awful #better #change #gotten #gratifying

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' ↗

— Earl Weaver

#just #lived #loser #tombstone #write

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#gentlemen #i #ladies #like #out

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them. ↗

— Barry White

#i #just #loved #low #put

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

#america #contemporary #defensive #desire #did

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#always #any #attention #attract #because

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. ↗

— George Will

#back #could #freedom #i #innocence

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. ↗

— Jayson Williams

#isolated #know #like #me #polished

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so... look at the platypus. ↗

— Robin Williams

#god #i #i think #look #platypus