Nina Simone // "I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear."
David Bowie // "I’m a person who can take on the guises of people I meet. I’m a collector, and I collect personalities and ideas."
Miles Davis // "I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."
Jean Cocteau // "I’ve always preferred mythology to history. Because history is made up of truths which eventually turn into lies, while mythology is made up of lies that eventually become truths. And if I have the good fortune to live on in your minds, it would be in mythological form."
Joan Didion // "I want you to know, as you read me, precisely who I am and where I am and what is on my mind. I want you to understand exactly what you are getting: you are getting a woman who for some time now has felt radically separated from most of the ideas that seem to interest people. You are getting a woman who, somewhere along the line, misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had in the social contract...in the whole grand pattern of human endeavor."
John Coltrane // "I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing...the emotional reaction is all that matters, as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood."
Ernest Hemingway // "I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me."
Charlie Chaplin // "To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish… Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural... You, the people have the power, the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us use that power. Let us all unite."
David Lynch // "You never know when ideas are going to hit you. You can get ideas just from sitting in a room daydreaming, just feeling the air. I think people are like radios. They pick up signals."
Anne Frank // "Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as you live, to make you happy again. Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try...looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more."
Albert Camus // "Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love."
Leonard Cohen // "I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can’t enjoy the deep wells of experience... If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be ok. But when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable."