#som

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#i #lot #pretty #primordial #snakes

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#life #much #must #power #something

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful. ↗

— David Bailey

#buddhist #change #continuous #i #like

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out. ↗

— David Bailey

#beaten #being #choice #eight #five

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#even #great #kind #loses #other

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#effect #faintest #going #hadn #having

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#fact #gratifying #in fact #me #method

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that. ↗

— Donovan Bailey

#body #brain #burnt #canada #clients

When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go! ↗

— Jeremy Spencer

#approaches #around #asks #blue #force

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#beyond #go #great #poetry #somebody