Band Quote by Ayi Kwei Armah Download Open image “Poets are band leaders who have failed.” — Ayi Kwei Armah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Band Failure Leader Leadership Poet Poetry
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each book, since… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul. — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist. — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
“others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency,… — Marco Mendoza Copy Share Image
My Nirvana experience was much different than the other three guys. For me, it was really new and exciting. I was just a guy… — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is more to me than just having been in the Runaways. And even though I'm really, really proud of what the band accomplished,… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish.… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
