History will see advertising “as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.” – Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of A
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. – Walter Pater
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. – Joni Mitchell