The spiral in a snails shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and its also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. Its the same ratio that youll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally. – Steve Hackett
You have teenagers thinking theyre going to make millions as NBA stars when thats not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. – Dean Kamen
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. – James I of England, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 1604
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business. – Billy Corgan
It is for every normal human being to be an artist. It is his divine heritage, every child is an artist. Human society kills it in us before we reach maturity. – Dudley Crafts Watson, 1918
