Thought for the week

• Sunday, 29 November 2009

  If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.

  -Walt Disney

• Sunday, 22 November 2009

  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  -Bill Cosby

• Sunday, 15 November 2009

  I managed to get through the mining exams - they're not very rigorous, they only ask you one question, they say 'Who are you?' and I got seventy-five per cent on that.

  -Peter Cook

• Sunday, 08 November 2009

  I was born with music inside me . . . Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my liver, my kidneys, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me -- like food or water.

  -Ray Charles

• Sunday, 01 November 2009

  They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

  -Gracie Allen

• Sunday, 25 October 2009

  What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while.... What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone...

  -J.D. Salinger

• Sunday, 18 October 2009

  What is art? Nature concentrated.

  -Honore de Balzac

• Sunday, 11 October 2009

  First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

  -Michael Caine

• Sunday, 04 October 2009

  You don't need any brains to listen to music.

  -Luciano Pavarotti

• Sunday, 27 September 2009

  The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

  -J.G. Ballard

• Sunday, 20 September 2009

  To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

  -Arnold Bennett

• Sunday, 13 September 2009

  Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

  -Sholem Asch

• Sunday, 06 September 2009

  The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another inevitably . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

  -Leonard Bernstein

• Sunday, 30 August 2009

  Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

  -Groucho Marx

• Sunday, 23 August 2009

  I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built. I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.??

  -Woody Guthrie

• Sunday, 16 August 2009

  Change is seldom easy, but always necessary.

  -Roger Glover

• Sunday, 09 August 2009

  Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

  -Oscar Wilde

• Sunday, 02 August 2009

  A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

  -Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull

• Sunday, 26 July 2009

  Silence is argument carried out by other means.

  -Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (1928-1967)

• Sunday, 19 July 2009

  Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

  -Tom Stoppard