To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.
I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.
Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.
Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man. . . . From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all avocations, he became a great scholar, a statesman, a major general, a Senator, a Presidential candidate. . . . The truth is, no man ever started so low that accomplished so much in all our history. Not Franklin or Lincoln even.
How do you get rid of hiccups? Drink water upside-down and put a pencil in your mouth. Is that possible?