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“Kindness that is nothing special is the rarest and most honest.”
― Idaho
― Idaho
“The inexplicable is its own form of freedom. Belonging is not a form of restriction. We can't name the feeling but we can sing along.”
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“I like to believe most people's natural state is to be creative. It definitely was when we were kids, when being spontaneously and joyfully creative was just our default setting. As we grow we learn to evaluate and judge, to navigate the world with some discretion, and then we turn on ourselves. Creating can't just be for the sake of creating anymore. It has to be good, or it has to mean something. We get scared out of our wits by the possibility of someone rejecting our creation.”
― Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
― Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
“It seems to me that the only wrong thing I could do with whatever gifts I've been given as a musician or an artist would be to let curiosity die.”
― Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
― Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
“I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.”
― Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
― Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
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