"What I respect is truth, therefore I can't respect what opposes truth. Just as the jurist's motto is: fiat justitia et pereat mundus, [Let justice be done though the world perish] so my motto is: vigeat veritas et pereat mundus, [Let truth prosper though the world perish] Every profession ought to have an analogous device"- Schopenhauer
"And at noon there will fall a hush upon the harbor And they'll ask: Who's to die? And then you'll hear me order firmly: All! when the heads fall I'll cry: Hoppla!
And the ship with eight sails And with fifty cannons Will sail off with me"- Lotte Lenya
"I want to cut off her head and take out her heart"- Bram Stoker
"Well, the sun is gone down And you're uptown And you're just out runnin' around I can't hardly stand it You're troublin' me I can't hardly stand It just can't be Well, you don't know, a-babe I love you so You got me all tore up, all tore up"- Charlie Feathers
"And let us sup with summer; ere the gleam Of Autumn set the year's pent sorrow free, And the woods wail like echoes from the sea"- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"- Bob Dylan
"You understand what I mean by 'they'. You know who they are. They are not essentially Republicans, but they have seized the Republican party as a vehicle for their ambitions. They are the partisans of privelege- the champions of monopoly- the opponents of liberty, the adversaries of the small buisness man, amd the small farmer. They have been here a long time. They used to run the Earth and run the world of men, but now- just now- they're losing out. They are making one of their last stands in this election. Must I name them? You know who they are. They have a long, long, weary, bloody history"- Orson Welles
"Weve been through some things together With trunks of memories still to come We found things to do in stormy weather Long may you run"- Neil Young
"Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East — to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them — who were above such trifling...
'What!' exclaim a million Irishmen starting up from all the shanties in the land, 'is not this railroad which we have built a good thing?' Yes, I answer, comparatively good, that is, you might have done worse; but I wish, as you are brothers of mine, that you could have spent your time better than digging in this dirt.”- Thoreau
"All day long they work so hard Till the sun is goin' down Working on the highways and byways And wearing, wearing a frown You hear them moanin' their lives away"- Sam Cooke
"If hymns were rock music sung to worship whatever you happened to believe in then it would sound like Zak Smith...These are the thoughts of a man in his mid-twenties. Rather than confounding us with wisdom beyond his years he is being true to himself and singing about what he actually knows and with that comes a certain frankness. Combine that with a soulful but raw voice and guitars that are alive with riffs and energy"-Glasswerk.com album review.
This is singer/songwriter Zak Smith's blog. He writes about music and posts his songs and videos here. Go to Zaksmithlive.com for more information.
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