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I really like a couple lines from Alanis Morissette's song "Joining You." In it she lists all sort of things that if they were the reason for living she'd join the suicidal character she's writing to. She sings:
"If we were our culture / If we were our leaders / I'd be joining you" That really helped me at the time because i was doing political activism (this was twenty-five years ago) and getting more and more depressed. I heard these lines and thought: yeah, i'm not suicidal because of the NATO war in the Balkans. I'm suicidal because of my own problems. I don't need to go borrowing trouble. So for that and other reasons i abandoned political activism and never looked back. I'll always be grateful to Alanis and that song. |
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Make it last Take it easy Not too fast - Def Leppard I think it's hilarious that a heavy metal band wrote these lyrics. I've remembered them since high school! |
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In the depth of winter, I found there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus
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Good one @busymomof5. I've never read Camus. I'll have to do so.
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@wolftrap: Thanks for listening to the song. I'm glad you think it's powerful. So do i. I so wish i could be a musician and write powerful songs like this. But alas, i am a mediocre Scrabble player instead, who helps no one.
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I, too, would love to write song lyrics. As for the music itself...it would be amazing to write music, but way over my head!
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@Moose72 - I think your poetry could be put to music. If you wanted, you could find a musical collaborator online. I have a musician friend (old and somewhat famous - played at original Woodstock) who found a poem online he loved, contacted the poet for permission to use her poem, and has composed music specifically for her poem. He's recording an album that will be released on Spotify and other steaming services. He has a number of famous people playing on his album. It can be done!
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"People who claim they hate people they really fear they need are of limited interest, i find."
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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[Art is] always based on the two poles, the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from that bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity.
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Glad you like it! Duchamp was more of a thinker than an artist per se. He did not make many works. But what he did was extraordinarily influential. He was, at the core, a profound thinker about the relationship between art and those who look at art and what that meant about the human condition. But, he didn't write anything. He expressed his thoughts via his works. The only verbal records are from interviews.
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"It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years." Albert Einstein.
This quote weighs on me because i take meds to stay calm and in touch with reality but they squash my creativity. What's the use of living a long life if it's dull? My favorite author David Foster Wallace died of depression in his forties but not after he had gifted the world many works of art. So what is the measure of success? Living a short but productive life or living a long but mundane life? We seem to value survival at all costs. But what's the use of surviving if all you do is tolerate life? Better to have a passionate short life than a long passive one. |
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"Ella wanted to play hide-and-seek, so I told her to go find her conscience". - N3 age 9
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