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- It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
- Jerry Garcia
- I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
- Howard Dietz
- The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
- Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
- Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Vedanta for the Western World, 1945
- The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
- When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World as I See It.
- Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
- The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Les Enfants Terribles
- Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- Peter de Vries
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