In music the present is extended.
There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.
Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.