#akin

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#artists #direction #extreme #haven #i

I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#being #eyes #feel #gas #gas station

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#being #brother #children #family #had

I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#i #out #sure #taking #talk

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#case #certain #claim #convincingly #distinctive

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#being #dad #go #goes #great

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. ↗

— John Dingell

#books #burning #destruction #ever #having

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#awww-i-love-this-one #beautiful #heartbreaking #beauty

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#been #different #different kind #energy #force

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democrat #evils #i #immature #impossible