If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn – exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. – Otto Weininger
Back then, I didnt have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isnt enough time. – Joni Mitchell
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way theyre similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way its performed. – Chris Ware
