"How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do. " - Curtis Mayfield, born this day in 1942.
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"Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life." - Art Blakey
"It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion." - J Mascis
"Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure." - Mark Knopfler
"Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny." - George Clinton
"At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer." - Roky Erickson. Hope the other side is as fun as you imagined. RIP.
"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso." - Robert Quine, 15 years gone today. You probably don't know Bob by name, but you've probably heard Bob's guitar. And if you haven't, you need to.
"The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea." - Nick Cave
"I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things. Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behavior patterns make me so bored," - Wendy O. Williams
"I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli." - David Johansen
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." - Miles Davis
"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary." - Billy Joel
"I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy." - Bob Dylan
"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz." - Sonny Rollins
"If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up." - Dexter Gordon
"Farming's always been my business. I just play blues for fun." - Howlin' Wolf
"I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one." - Morrissey
"I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that." - Corin Tucker
"A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in." - Joe Cocker
"I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert." - Joe Cocker
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