#akin

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#audience #cannot #doctor #doing #feeling

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#duke #friend #i #jokes #life

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#artwork #being #enjoy #i #involved

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#artwork #being #enjoy #front #i

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#comedy #doing #expect #like #records

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#breaking #completely #deep #different #justice

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book. ↗

— Clive Owen

#based #because #book #different #different thing

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ↗

— Richard Owen

#barnacles #darwin #devoted #more #mr

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#back #change #changing #climate #climate change

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous. ↗

— Amanda Peet

#awed #casual #creating #dedicated #even