Robert Wyatt Quotes

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

Robert Wyatt

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CharacterThinkMusiciansChooseOwn

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Amy Sedaris

IdeasFreeFeelOpenEverythingGet

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

John R. Allen

WorkTodayRelationshipDoingLine

I rode the buses in L.A. until I was in my early 30s, and there's something about driving or riding through L.A. after sundown, when the Utopian city goes into hiding and another city comes out, more Doors and less Byrds.

Steve Erickson

CityDrivingDoorsEarlyRidingOut

There's something to be said for giving and helping to change people's lives.

Steven A. Cohen

ChangePeopleGivingSaidSomething

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

MusicYouBrilliantLittleUsedGet

There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it.

Shiri Appleby

EarlyDownFirstAlwaysSeasonBeen

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

Louise Brown

ConfidentDownWillEveryoneDancing

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

Julia Glass

FearTruthBestCompassionUgly

The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

PeopleCareDoingWantOnlyStuff

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

Jonathan Ive

PeopleStartThoughtProcessNow

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

Coretta Scott King

FailureCompassionYouthCommon Sense

I know just how often people get told 'no' to their brilliant ideas - not just most of the time, but 90 percent of the time.

Brian Grazer

TimePeopleIdeasKnowBrilliant

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