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Quotes About Reality

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.
~ John D. MacDonald
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
~ Morrissey
Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.
~ Bob Marley
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
~ Robert Fripp
When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.
~ Matty Mullins
I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
~ Neko Case
If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.
~ Charles Mingus
The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
~ John Lennon
There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
~ Daphne Guinness
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.
~ Robert Breault
Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.
~ Bryan White
Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.
~ Alicia Keys
All rock music is fake news.
~ John Flansburgh
The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.
~ Mahavatar Babaji
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
~ Nikola Tesla
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
~ Helen Keller
Every thing is of the nature of no thing.
~ Parmenides
Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
~ Abraham Maslow
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
~ Henry Adams
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
~ Hans Jonas
Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.
~ Marc Gafni
It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.
~ Charlotte Selver
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.
~ Paul Klee