Saul Quotes
Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?
Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done
I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.
What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.
I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.
You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.
I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.
Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.
It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...
When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyleatop some crumbling building, spring to lifea resuscitated angel.
For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our childrenso longfor the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fatherswe live
i laced my shoes with sorrowand walked a weary roaddead end streetsdon't come undonewith double knots wing tipped shoesthat walk on airthrough vacant lots
There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.
. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.
He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?
Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena.
The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.
You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.
I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interests ahead of her own.
Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there’s the devil to pay.
If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.
The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.
Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.
Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.
What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?
the greatest Americanshave not been born yetthey are waiting patientlyfor the past to die
Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we.
The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep.
