The music technology scene is changing so fast its hard to keep up.
It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.
. . . the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.
Even if you don't have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body.
To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.