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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. ”
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible. ”
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. ”
If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. ”
I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that. ”
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things. ”
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. ”
In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process. ”
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration. ”
I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great. ”