{"id":5844,"date":"2016-03-01T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2016-03-01T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:20:41","slug":"quotes-challenge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5844","title":{"rendered":"quotes challenge #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"As you get older, and you see friends age and family members die, and then the question of, 'Gee, if we try this improvisation on stage tonight, is there a chance that it might suck?' becomes a lot less important.\"<\/p>\n<p>Okay, as I reported <a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5840\">last time<\/a>, I found this quote in an article recently, but I apparently didn't bookmark it, or save the URL, or manage to remember who it was about or by, so here it is, from memory.<\/p>\n<p>I do remember that the article was about a group of musicians, not young -- but that's pretty obvious from the quote itself.<\/p>\n<p>I've performed on stage many times. The performances ranged from magically good to dismally bad. None, no matter how bad, came even close to being fatal.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of this great quote from Andy Warhol, which I've written about before:<\/p>\n<p>\"[I]f you say that artists take 'risks' it's insulting to the men who landed on D-Day, to stuntmen, to baby-sitters, to Evel Knievel, to stepdaughters, to coal miners, and to hitch-hikers, because they're the ones who really know what 'risks' are.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5844&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5844&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As you get older, and you see friends age and family members die, and then the question of, &#8216;Gee, if we try this improvisation on stage tonight, is there a chance that it might suck?&#8217; becomes a lot less important.&#8221; Okay, as I reported last time, I found this quote in an article recently, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5847,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions\/5847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}