In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a woman dissolving into violence, desperately weakening everything he tried to do. For how could learning and poetry be defend...
A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one creature and another. To be good for nothing is just that. If a virtue has been thought a virtue long enough, it mus...
what does travel ultimately produce if it is not, by a sort of reversal, 'an exploration of the deserted places of my memory,' the return to nearby exoticism by way of a detour through distant places, and the 'discovery' of relics and legends: 'fleet...
When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not w...
Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a best seller, but you must write anyway. You have to write because you love it, because it fuels you, ...
To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.
Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.
I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.
All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.
My hair is naturally blonde... Just for the record. ~ Jace
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.
