May 2011
29 posts
The Way It Will Be II
Ian Fitzgerald
The Way It Will Be (Gillian Welch) - Recorded 5.25.11
In case there’s any question, those are real live bird noises, not sound effects. I wouldn’t even know how to do that.
“It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain’t got any friends.”
—Bob Dylan (via shadykcatie)
“I don’t think that an artist should bother about his audience. His best audience is the person he sees in his shaving mirror every morning. I think that the audience an artist imagines, when he imagines that kind of a thing, is a room filled with people wearing his own mask.”
—Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions (via austinkleon)
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
—Orson Welles, in his screenplay for The Big Brass Ring, written in the early 1980s as his last attempt at a commercial Hollywood film (via austinkleon)
Helplessness Blues
Ian Fitzgerald
Helplessness Blues (Robin Pecknold) - Recorded 5.8.11
