When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records. Sandra Bernhard Read Quote
The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can’t spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting. Guy Ritchie Read Quote
With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the ‘Rock Band’ game is a tribute to rock rather than an affront. Carrie Brownstein Read Quote
Bruce’s band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there’s no lead guitar player, for one thing. Phil Lesh Read Quote
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid. William Morris Read Quote
Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind. Henry Petroski Read Quote
I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, ‘Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.’ Dionne Bromfield Read Quote
