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I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always…

— Isabel Allende

At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

— Samantha Fox

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

— Millicent Fenwick

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't…

— Heinrich Böll

I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

— Andrei Sakharov

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

— Patrick Rothfuss

Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more.

— Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

“Dear Daniel, How do you break up with your boyfriend in a way that tells him, "I don't want to sleep with you on…

— Daniel Handler

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance…

— Peter Warlock

In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when…

— Conor Oberst

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it…

— Nina Persson

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's…

— Aimee Mann

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

— Oscar Wilde

“I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards. My favorite song of all time is…

— Michael Ian Black