Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
Jakob Dylan
I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think... →
I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song.... →
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the... →
Esther Dyson
In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia... →
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals... →
Freeman Dyson
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are... →
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of... →
James Dyson
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to... →
Michael Eric Dyson