Donald Baechler Quotes

I miss Dia. In the early '80s I was a guard at one of Dia's facilities in SoHo, and I'm sad that they closed their Chelsea space.

Donald Baechler

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SadSpaceEarlyMissGuardChelsea

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?

Jennifer Aniston

MorningWake UpYouUpWakeExcites

Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country.

Andris Nelsons

MusicLanguageYouCountryBeyond

When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.

Meg Cabot

GoodBestFriendsGood FriendsShy

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Robert Smithson

ArtDayI AmRepresentationExist

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

Miranda Lambert

MusicFirstWhereDidTalented

I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

Loudon Wainwright III

FunnyMeSongInterestingYouKind

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Christopher Hitchens

RelationshipChurchAfraidSomething

Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new jokes. I've written jokes as good as 'Roxanne', I believe. But I can't tell them again.

Chris Rock

GoodPeopleBelieveEnvyNewWant

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Allen Ginsberg

BestExperienceGeniusKindMy Own

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.

Alice Ripley

PowerMeLongMoveFanLifelong

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Wole Soyinka

ValueAmazingSurviveYouHuman

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato

LoveGreatDoneOthersOwnThings

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