Freakshows Quotes & Sayings

For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre elitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at empty formulas of intellectual superiority. — Alex Ross

When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick. — Patrick DeWitt

We really don't get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do. — Jeffrey Tucker

I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives. — Ruben Ostlund

I'll fight a man with three children and a nice house any day over a man that's living out of a car. — Art Briles

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value. — Howard Snell

Quality Never dies. — Abdullah Khan

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself. — Criss Jami

I want to go on living even after death! — Anne Frank

Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves. — Chuck Palahniuk

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand. — Thelonious Monk

I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting ... It can be sometimes that delineated. — Chelsea Cain