I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.
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in Strange Parallel (1998)Elliott Smith
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An ad that pretends to be art is — at absolute best — like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.
David Foster Wallace
Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything I do, in a way, has some sort of business around it. So with my music I can have my privacy. If people don’t have to pay for it then I think they can be a little more open to new ideas.
Milla Jovovich
When you’re an artist, you don’t want to deal with business. The business nuances are incredibly difficult. But you need to understand a defunct system in order to make it work or change it, and that took me a lot of research. If you’re not willing to do that, I say you’re not ready.
Jessica Mae Stover
She hath smiles to earth unknown—
Smiles that with motion of their own
Do spread, and sink, and rise.William Wordsworth
There were…smiles of encouragement for Lydgate, and some smiles of sweet pity as well, as for the only leper present.
Anthony Burgess
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