Paul Klee Quotes
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
Quotes to Explore
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I would love to be a role model.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.
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In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.
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I love America, but I've now got two young kids and America has changed so much since 9/11 and Bush. It's beyond Orwellian. The idea in '1984' that if you keep saying you're being attacked then you can get away with anything has come true.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.
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Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
