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Bill Laswell Quotes

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 12, 1955

Topics

People Career Security Know Image

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

John Chamberlain

Art People Find Willing Made Means

My mother was the greatest mother in the world. She thought I was the greatest thing on two feet. I'd come home with a little composition I had written at school, and she'd look at it and say, 'It's wonderful! You're another Shakespeare!' I always assumed I could do anything. It really is amazing how much that has to do with your attitude.

Mother Home Attitude School Amazing

I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the top. It's funny, though: When I tell people that I like Tom's music, it surprises them.

Funny Music People Book I Can Hand

When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified.

Moving Week Last Steve Jobs Very

After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that 'Same Love' allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.

Love Girl Me Church Consequences

If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

You Look Street 1920s Marble Off

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!

Eyes Walk Hell Inside Outside Kid

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.

Challenge Trust Government People Me

I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

Chris Van Allsburg

Dog You Know Want Accept Up

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Love Father Child Me Mom Why

I know I have pretty good instincts.

Good Know Pretty Instincts

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

Creative Writing Acting Now Being

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