4 Hunter S. Thompson Quotes on Art

Hunter S. Thompson quotes on art

11. Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

105. There were other outlaws who missed the brass ring in the fifties. Lenny Bruce was one of them; he was never quite right for television. Bruce had tremendous potential until about 1961, when the people who had been getting such a kick out of him suddenly realized he was serious.

114. I heard the music, and I wrote to it. Some people beat drums. Some people strum guitars. It's all in the music you hear.

115. The music industry is a cruel and shallow money-trench. A long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side.