#round

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. ↗

— Epictetus

#carrying #corpse #little #soul #you

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. ↗

— Brian Eno

#composers #experience #find #increasingly #likely

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me. ↗

— Brian Eno

#drowning #foreground #had #i #idea

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#choice #daughter #doing #even #expects

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#center #cycle #fear #inefficient #thoughts

With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check. ↗

— Mike Epps

#bust #check #cocked #cube #house

But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen. ↗

— Brian Epstein

#arrangements #cult thing #cuz #difficult #difficult thing

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss. ↗

— Bono

#arms #around #big #duck #giving

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. ↗

— Bono

#africa #around #brigade #cans #continent

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#applied #background #cannot #cultural #culture