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I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter. ”
We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money. ”
Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society. ”
Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security. ”
Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft. ”
No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine. ”
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words. ”
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage. ”
As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market. ”
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. ”