“Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!” WorldNeedsTryingRealKidsBlackWhiteHalfStudyFailingModernRocksMastersPersonalityHistorianRock And RollPearlsModern WorldJamBlack MusicPearl Jam Author:Steven Van Zandt
“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?” IfsThinkingNeedsDoeEyeDiesSleepPleasureRaceExistenceLibertyPathDangerMastersDegreesAuthorityAbsolutesRemoveSmallestVitalityThornsTranquilLanguish Author:Alexis de Tocqueville