It didnt matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies. – Jon Landau
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours. – Jon Landau
What makes the Stones arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they werent rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us. – Jon Landau
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,