Cancel Culture - Casting Stone

"If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, cause, 'Man, you see how woke I was, I called you out.'  That's not activism. That’s not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far. That's easy to do."
-Barrack Obama

Political Correctness

"Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance. It presents itself as fairness, yet attempts to restrict and control people's language with strict codes and rigid rules. I'm not sure that's the way to fight discrimination. I'm not sure silencing people or forcing them to alter their speech is the best method for solving problems that go much deeper than speech."
-George Carlin

Physical Execution

"If you can’t get it right playing in your bedroom, how are you going to get it right on the session or the gig? You need to work on the physical execution."
-Cory Wong, guitarist

Olympics

"I laugh, I cry, I scream, there are no losers in the Olympics as they have all spent a lifetime preparing but I celebrate with the ones that go away with the gold, silver, and bronze medals."

Move and Groove

"I can move you without laying my hands on you.  When I lay my groove on you, you're gonna move."
-Jonathan "Sugarfoot" Moffett, drummer

Food Is Inspiring

"Food should inspire all the senses, and the environment should be warm and welcoming."
-Kori Sutton, chef

Eyes and Soul

"Eyes show the strength of your soul."
-Paulo Coelho, lyricist and writer

Love Yourself First

"If you can't love yourself, how the hell are you going to love someone else?"
-RuPaul

Guitar Is Satisfying

"The guitar is such a great instrument to play.  I feel blessed that I have ability to still move my fingers around on the fretboard because it is so gratifying and so satisfying for your soul."
-Alex Lifeson

Having Fun With Your Band

"When you’re having fun with your band members, it projects way out into the crowd and comes back tenfold… which makes you play harder."
-Donny Parenteau

Asking for Help

"If you asking someone for help and they turn you down, they probably would've taught you the wrong attitude anyway."
-Donny Parenteau, singer-songwriter, musician

Recognizing Patters in Behaviour

 "Recognizing patterns in our behaviour doesn’t always make them easy to correct."
-Paul Hoffman, singer-songwriter and musician in Greensky Bluegrass

Loneliest Feeling

"One day, you’re gonna look around and you’re going to realize that everybody loves you, but nobody likes you. And that is the loneliest feeling in the world."
-Bojack Horseman

Magic is Life Changing

"After discovering magic, my life changed.  It was a like a light switching coming on inside my head.  I found away to interact with people through my magic.  Magic is my universe and my universe is whole."
-Cillian O'Connor

Austism - Not a Disibility

"I've learned that having autism is not a disability, it's an ability."
-Cillian O'Connor, magician

Music Industry Now vs. Then

"The main thing I notice is this crushing, constant 24/7 churn of you got to create content, there's got to be content, we have to create content, there has to be this online content.  It's just this constant churn."
-Amanda Marshall

Music vs. Other Art Forms

 "Music is a physical expression of an emotional experience and that is what distinguishes it, probably, from every other art form maybe other than dance.  It is the only opportunity as human beings to stand together and bond over this thing.  It's not language and it's not strictly a visual thing.  It's this auditory experience that we all have together."
-Amanda Marshall

Records is Business

 "When you got on stage, none of that other stuff matters.  When you get on stage, you got to do exactly what we do which is to hold hands with the people around you, and we all jump off this thing together."
-Amanda Marshall, singer-songwriter

Records and Stage

 "It doesn't matter how many gold records you got.  Records is business, stage is soul."
-Sam Moore, singer

Stanley Cup Champion

"Takes me back to my Toronto days. You guys said I couldn’t win, and now I’m a three-time champ. Remember that."
-Phil Kessel, hockey player

Religion and Division

"Religion should not be a cause for division."
-Jason Collins, former NBA player

Closing Doors

 "Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
-Alexander Graham Bell

Survival

 "I have a two percent chance of survival.  But two percent is not zero percent.  Two percent is something.  I wish people knew how amazing it is."
-Nightbirde

Waiting for Happiness

 "You can't wait till life isn't hard anymore to be happy."
-Nightbirde

Asking for Things

"At the end of the day, why are we embarrassed to ask for things? I will never understand that. I have asked to work for WWE probably 100 times and I am not embarrassed about that one bit. I have my dream job. I’m doing exactly what I want. I get to help give my family what they want. I get to feed my amazing animals and live in Florida. Why would I be embarrassed that I had to ask somebody for that, that I got it."
-Chelsea Green, pro wrestler

Nudity

 "There's something therapeutic about nudity.  Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same."
-Kevin Bacon

Mental Illness

 "As me, we didn't talk about.  We just have kept our head down and worked through it.  Not healthy, but it's all we knew."
-Dwayne Johnson

Passage to Bangkok

"This piece is about a fun little journey to all the good places you could go to have a puff. We thought it would be kind of fun to write a song about that, and Neil did it in a very eloquent way, I think. That song was probably written in a farmhouse, on an acoustic guitar, in front of a little cassette player of some sort. We would record like that and then go down in the basement and rehearse it."

Comfortable Cow

 "If a cow more is comfortable when she leaves the crush than she was when she entered, we've done our job."
-Graeme Parker, hoof trimmer

Ability

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
-Stevie Wonder

Privileges

 "Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Neil Peart

"He was called 'The Professor' for a reason.  We all learned from him."
-Dave Grohl

Playing a Rush Show

"Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations."
-Neil Peart

Role Model

"I know that I might be a role model, especially being a young black man on TV. And I'm fine with that because I stand behind what I do. I do a great job. I do a clean job. So if that gets me made fun of by another Black actor, then so be it. And if some kid in the projects or even in the suburbs watches what I do and says, 'I want to be like that,' then I've won."
-Wayne Brady

Replacing Monty Hall on Let's Make a Deal

"They got me because they wanted someone a little edgier.  But I get that it is daytime, so I am not going to say, 'Hey bitch, what's behind door No. 1?' But it lets me push it as far as you can in the daytime schedule, because it is a Vegas audience."
-Wayne Brady

Strike While the Iron Is Hot

"The old adage is, you strike while the iron is hot. I've been blessed enough that my irons have been hot-to-warm-to-hot for the past 10 years. So I'm still striking."
-Wayne Brady

Entertaining

 "This is what I was built for, I can't save a life; that's why I didn't become a doctor. I can't drive a 16-wheeler. There are a lot of things in life I can't do, but I'll be damned if I can't get on a stage and entertain."
-Wayne Brady

Being Black

 "Being black isn't what I'm trying to be. It's what I am."
-Alfonso Ribeiro as Carlton Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Skill and Artistry

"Skill and artistry are not necessarily something that has to go hand-in-hand.  We spend all this time building skill and expecting that if we get to a certain skill level that we are going to be able to make art.  Art completely exists outside of your skill set."
-Joey Landreth, singer-songwriter, musician

Secrets of the Universe

 "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration."
-Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), inventor, electrical and mechanical engineer