Today I saw this random post by a fan (Alex) who posted the following on a blog entitled “rock ‘n’ roll is dead”: “I don’t think it’s a flat plane as regards music. Sure a lot may be produced in every period but I don’t believe or take for granted that the creation of art …
I grew up in Kansas, my parents were Mennonites and their parent’s were immigrants from Germany who had escaped the religious persecution that had crept into that country at the time. We grew up unaware of racial discrimination, I learned about it from some of my childhood heroes like Jackie Robinson and later on as …
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.” – Jim Carey One of my favorite songs is “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Gladys Knight. There is a line in the song “dreams don’t always come true” that always inspires …
“Most of the very great poets have been not only sane, but extremely business-like and if Shakespeare ever really held horses, it was because he was much the safest man to hold them. Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go …
“Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy. But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals …