I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator (1799) |
Louisa May Alcott, Novelist (1832) |
John D. Barrow, Scientist (1952) |
Brian Baumgartner, Actor (1972) |
Kim Delaney, Actress (1961) |
Taisen Deshimaru, Philosopher (1914) |
Rahm Emanuel, Politician (1959) |
Harry Essex, Writer (1910) |
Anna Faris, Actress (1976) |
John Ambrose Fleming, Inventor (1849) |
William Cartwright, Dramatist (1643) |
Dorothy Day, Activist (1980) |
Louis Finkelstein, Clergyman (1991) |
Dan Flavin, Sculptor (1996) |
George Harrison, Musician (2001) |
Thomas Hewitt Key, Writer (1875) |