#yin

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there. ↗

— David Friedman

#heart #laying #me #most #out

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#belief #economy #free #free economy #free market

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#al #chain #dell #global #iraq

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#collaboration #distance #even #field #forces

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? ↗

— Robert Fripp

#does #genius #many #music #musician

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#huge amounts #material #playing #repertoire #stuck

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#completely #depending #different #down #end

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. ↗

— Fred Frith

#ball #costumes #dressed #even #football

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount. ↗

— Angie Stone

#discount #feel #get #i #joy

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ↗

— Robert Frost

#free #free verse #like #net #playing