Jens Lekman Quotes

My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.

Jens Lekman

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LovePurposeSongYouSayAim

I've always felt you are only as good as your next album or next show. What you've done is done. When you get a gold record, you hang it on the wall, and then it's like, 'Yeah, next?'

Joe Perry

GoodGoldYouWallDoneAlways

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

StartSickThinkYouFindMoral

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

Angela Davis

LearningTimeCitySurvivalEarly

I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.

Mike Dirnt

GoodDaughterMeSheWatchGreatest

Banning hate speech doesn't end racism or antisemitism. Social pressure does that. It becomes socially unacceptable.

Mona Eltahawy

HateRacismEndPressureSpeech

It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves.

Diplo

MeCoolForwardGuitarPlayScratch

My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on 'Cosby' nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.

Christine Lakin

HatForwardYearTopRealAlways

I'm not superstitious about anything in my life - except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don't like talking about it. I don't like making predictions.

CM Punk

LifeHockeyWeirdMy LifeTalking

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Brian Eno

PastThinkRememberLookBackJust

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

Bobby Seale

PowerSocietyPoliticalYouNeed

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Brigitte Bardot

I AmShockingHowAmInsolent

Here is a guiding principle: If a business collects data on consumers electronically, it should provide them with a version of that data that is easy to download and export to another Web site.

Richard Thaler

BusinessDataEasyHereWebGuiding

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