I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
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Nationality: Greek Type: Philosopher Born: 341 BC Death: 271 BC |
“I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.”
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”