“I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.” IfsMenChildrenUsedSongCultureImagineMusic IsSingingUltimateOld ManSwingsImagine ThatRopeJump Rope Author:Tom Waits
“One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.” MenMayPlayWould BeImagineGladImagine ThatAmusementViolinTrumpets Book:If I lived my life again Source: If I lived my life again
“Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.” MenWorldMayArtCommonAttentionQualityImagineFameProjectsEvery ManReputationMortalsHopelessImagine ThatCompelledHerdsPretension Author:Samuel Johnson