Mike Portnoy We kind of established in Sons of Apollo right from the get go that it would be a very collaborative process musically, but after that, I was going to take the reins and control everything else beyond that the way I did with Dream Theater. – Mike Portnoy Apollo Quotes Collaborative Quotes Control Quotes Dream Quotes Established Quotes Musically Quotes Process Quotes Reins Quotes Sons Quotes Theater Quotes Normally, when I write the setlist for a Dream Theater show, I’ll change it up every night, and we can basically play whatever we want. When sequencing an album, you kind of have to look at it like you’re making a movie with different acts, and you have ebb and flow, peaks and valleys. You want it to feel like a journey or a good movie or book where you can actually feel very satisfied at the ride at the end of it.
Eduardo Galeano So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: ‘Tell me! Tell me!’ The stories choose me. – Eduardo Galeano
Frankie Valli At school, I’d sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn’t know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I’d hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up. – Frankie Valli
Andi Dorfman Sure, there are times when I’d like to have someone romantically in my life, but then I think about my life as a whole and realize I’m generally happy being alone. – Andi Dorfman
Paracelsus When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. – Paracelsus
David Graeber It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say. – David Graeber
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