"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours."
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“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
“I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.”
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“That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.”
“It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology”
“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
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Jeff Buckley (American musician)
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Born : November 17, 1966
Died : May 29, 1997
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was an American singer-songwriter celebrated for his ethereal voice and poignant songwriting. His debut album, "Grace" (1994), features the critically acclaimed cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Blending rock, folk, and opera, Buckley influenced a generation of musicians. He died tragically at 30 while swimming in the Wolf River, leaving behind a lasting musical legacy. His posthumous album, "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk," further solidified his status as an icon of alternative rock.
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Born : November 17, 1966
Died : May 29, 1997
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was an American singer-songwriter celebrated for his ethereal voice and poignant songwriting. His debut album, "Grace" (1994), features the critically acclaimed cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Blending rock, folk, and opera, Buckley influenced a generation of musicians. He died tragically at 30 while swimming in the Wolf River, leaving behind a lasting musical legacy. His posthumous album, "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk," further solidified his status as an icon of alternative rock.
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"I want to be ripped apart by music.I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or. that totally sucks the life out of you.I want to be dashed against the rocks."
"Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy.It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom."
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"When a person sings, their body, their mouth, their eyes, their words, their voice says all these unspeakable things that you can't explain but that mean something anyway.It's a weird thing...at the end of the night I feel strange, because I feel I've told everybody all my secrets."
"Music needs to have a real sacred setting for people to understand it. You've got to start things off with friends who are like-minded or even strangers that are like-minded.Sending your music to established artists or labels or magazine,I mean there is something to be said for tenacity,for trying to pursue recognition that way, but it just doesn't make sense for the best work. And if you do make an amazing work, it's sometimes not the best way to be heard.You have to get on a sacred space,like a stage, and do your testifying that way."
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"Grace is what matters. In anything...that's what. matters.That's a quality I admire very greatly.It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly;it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly;it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.
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"The most audacious thingI could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living.It's worth being bashed against.It's worth getting scarred by.It's worth pouring yourself over. every one of its hot coals."
"If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress."
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"I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be aware enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is. beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even. places you hate.".
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"People usually like to travel around in packs, because they need reassurance, they constantly need to be justified by the acceptance of others and that's such a moveable feast,you never know if you're up or down and I really can't trust that...and I've learned not to.It can give you the illusion that you are correct be true."
"The only goal is in the process. The. process is the thing...with little flashes of light here and there...it's the life in between. That's all I've got.".
"The words come from here, my heart from memories, from dreams, from people I've known."
"My music is like a lowdown dreamy bit of the psyche. It's part quagmire and part structure. The quagmire is important for things to grow in.Do you ever have one of those memories where you think you remember a taste or a feel of something, maybe an object,but the feeling is so bizarre and imperceptible that you just can't quite get a hold of it? It drives you crazy. That's my musical aesthetic, just this imperceptible fleeting memory."