Mutabaruka Music Quotes & Sayings

(As your experience about writing accrues) you learn how little you know. It becomes much more difficult because the hardest thing in the world is simplicity. And the most fearful thing, too. It becomes more difficult because you have to strip yourself of all your disguises, some of which you didn't know you had. — James Baldwin

Unless you leave a person both physically and mentally, you are still with that person and there is no real departure! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding ... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis

Never complain, pray for strength to overcome the difficulty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets." — Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end. — Cindy Sheehan

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world. — Nelson Mandela

There are times that a work exists for the sake of getting you to the next step, as a testing ground for ideas, for recognizing parts if your process that were theretofore unnoticed or undiscovered. — Carrie Brownstein

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist. — Christian Keiber

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand. — Brian Greene

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. — Francis Bacon

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend. — Bruce Sterling

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly. — Joseph Conrad