It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.
Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.
Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.
Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.