I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read Just Kids and its an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. – James Iha
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. – Robert Louis Stevenson
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. – Helen Keller
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse. – Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, 1948
Weve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are. – Jesse Jackson
