#tryin

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap. ↗

— Eminem

#black #color #crossed #fact #friends

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter. ↗

— Brian Eno

#format #get #getting #longer #much

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way. ↗

— Brian Eno

#fit #hitting #interesting #interesting way #me

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss. ↗

— Bono

#arms #around #big #duck #giving

I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#almost #became #conceivable #explosions #fascinated

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.' ↗

— Alex Borstein

#come #developing #dig #doing #emulate

We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#entertain #entertain people #here #people #splitting

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#cynicism #fruit #hard #hip #media

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed. ↗

— Erik Estrada

#growing #growing up #harlem #latino #spanish

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral. ↗

— James Bovard

#attention #attention deficit #combination #death #deficit