Plugging Quotes

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else`s vision.

I`m going to keep plugging away. I`ve said from the start that whatever happens happens as long as I continue to get better. That`s what`s frustrating (Saturday night) because I didn`t get better. I didn`t make strides where I wanted to. Obviously I didn`t make a strong case for being No. 2 tonight.

There`s just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

When we talk about violence, we`re talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don`t lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you`re photographing is people, bodies. You can`t really photograph an abstract concept, whereas a novelist can write about that. You have to photograph something physical. So that combination of things suggests to me a particular way to deal with violence. And it`s not a bad thing that people really understand what violence is. It`s not, however, a politically correct thing I do. I`m not a big fan of political correctness. It`s very detrimental to art in general. An artist`s responsibility is to be irresponsible. As soon as you start to think about social or political responsibility, you`ve amputated the best limbs you`ve got as an artist. You are plugging into a very restrictive system that is going to push and mold you, and is going to make your art totally useless and ineffective.

He was huge. The guy takes up a lot of gaps and does a great job of getting push. He does a great job of plugging.

On this album, we took the opportunity to show people that hey, we like to make real music. We`re not just plugging in our guitars and singing the catchiest melody to sell records.

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

We`ve stayed with it pretty much through the whole trip, we`ve been consistent. We`ve worked hard, we came here with the attitude we wanted to keep plugging away. They got our number tonight. Give them credit, too. They play tight defense, they`ve been known for that for 15 years.

We`ve had this stretch before, and we`ve bounced right back. The difference is, there`s a lot more riding right now. We`ve just got to dig deep, keep plugging along and see what happens.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience