“Most people think when the world gets itself together, we’ll all be okay. I don’t see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don’t think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.” –George Harrison
Category: quote
article & video from Jon Batiste
“I’ve come to realize that music can help us to clarify, to ascertain, and to assert our humanity while making genuine connections….We are all looking for the same things out of life and music has always been a tool we’ve used to explore it.” —Jon Batiste, 2019
new song from Wilco
“Love conquers all, but not when it’s used as a sedative, right? I worry that I’m often comfortable and placated by my ability to recognize and feel the love that already exists around me. What I see in myself and others is a struggle to summon sufficient outrage to act and then retreat into the delusion that the love that exists will eventually triumph. But it won’t! For love to triumph I believe we’re duty bound to create more of it, and for more people – people we don’t know, even people we don’t like! And that takes courage I don’t always have. The song is a reminder to myself to act with more love and courage and less outrage and anesthetized fear.” –Jeff Tweedy
John Malkovich quote
“When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that’s why I do it, that’s why I like it.” — John Malkovich, 2010
Joan Miro quote
“More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.” —Joan Miro
Leonardo da Vinci quote
“Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.” — Leonardo da Vinci
quote from Olafur Eliasson
“Art helps us identify with one another and expands our notion of we – from the local to the global.” — Olafur Eliasson, 2016
quote from John F. Kennedy
“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth… In free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology. Artists are not engineers of the soul. It may be different elsewhere. But democratic society — in it, the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.” — John F. Kennedy, Oct. 26, 1963
quote from Joni Mitchell
“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.” —Joni Mitchell, 2006
quote from John Lennon
“My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.” —John Lennon