Sayings of Editor Art (more of the hundreds of quips, quotes, comments, rants, and sayings, on all things, by the editor of Zine Musea. Musea 212.

All that and a bag of quips

We are knots in a society of strings

Kid to Dad:  This book is broken!
Dad:  What do you mean?
Kid:  Look, I open it and nothing pops up!!!

The first thing to do, to make your dreams come true is to ...
Wake Up!

Actor in sci-fi movie
"10, 9, 8 ....... Line!"

If you own more than 1 private jet, you haven’t been taxed enough!

It's my soiree and
I'll ennui if I want to!

Naughty or Nice - it's not a multiple choice!

We've had 30 years of technical innovations in the arts.  Now it's time for a golden age of content!

Have you ever had a dream that you were sleepy?

My wallet is a one way street.

3 companies, The Big 3 Labels, run music, have ruined it, and have got to go!

Those who uses religion to hurt others are not religious.

Time has speed limits; from zero to the speed of light.

Ulysses by James Joyce, abridged version.
Buck Mulligan
came bearing
a bowl of lather.

I'd ask you to grow old with me, but I'm already there!

I like this novel!  It doesn't bog down with good writing!

When a business makes excessive profits, it's either in a banner year or it's cheating someone.

While Hollywood walks the red carpet, theater workers are swept under it!

Liking a post is literally just, lifting a finger!

The paradigm is shifting from CONSERVATIVE  versus LIBERAL, to CORPORATIONS versus PEOPLE.

Reviewer:  Didn't like your novel - too wordy!

Thinking how to type
Thinking what to write

Life is when you throw snow back up into the sky!

When the ice thins the plot thickens.

During these changing times, it's important that we:  keep trying what hasn't worked in the past, continue to block out any new solutions, and wring our hands when that doesn't work.... Right?

Architecture now is either a glass box or a junk pile!

X: Where is Dallas? 
Y:Where it should be!

There are a lot of words between "A"  and  "Z "  !

It's like finding a pearl in your bowl of cornflakes.  Yes it can happen but ....

Want to buy my music catalogue?   Cost = the company that's buying it!

This novel is so bad, I got bored reading the synopsis!

I don't know you; but almost everything you think, I disagree with.

In films, women like marriages, men like pie fights!

Some painter asked how to get portraits more exact. Here's the dilemma: You get it exact and you are a camera, and you have taken all your personality out of the portrait. Some will say that is good; others say you will end up with a pretty lifeless piece of art.

How can you have a selfish gene if there's no direction to evolution?

Sieve logic: full of holes.

I'm aiming for 16 minutes of fame!

Corporate arts motto: Make money, not waves!

Some may not think there is any meaning to life.  Then you make one and that'll have to do till the real one comes along.

The world is slightly FOR the young and slightly AGAINST the old.

X:Will you love me through thick and thin?
Y: Let's start with thick.

The synchronized swimmer went out on her own.

For a hit song, you have to have this month's greatest - something! That could include, song, lyrics, singer, players, arrangement, video, promotional budget ....  SOMETHING!

Chickens have had millions of years of experience at not getting caught.  You've had a minute of experience in catching them.

To runway models;  Be sure to smile big - the extra lipstick will add some weight!

This year had more spring than winter

Anything can happen at 3 o'clock!

Children don't want to be cute, they want to grow up and be adults.

History is never what you think it was.

Looks like the clown car is full this year.

Are the Rolling Stones finally gathering moss!

She was born under a bad star and a dark cloud under that!

Physics is often more unbelievable than miracles!

Bumper Sticker:  Astronomers help you see stars!

Musicians should Stand out, not Fit in!

Placebo effect means M&Ms are a miracle drug!

All mortar, no brick!

Money is more important in societies that don't share.

Old soldiers never die, they send young ones to do it for them.

The writing’s on the wall and you're calling it graffiti!

Musical formats and genres are a way of blocking creative people.

Podcasts - they are like real radio but good!

War is the marketing ploy for the military industrial complex.

If the latest fashion creation doesn't look good on the model, it's not going to look good on you!

Three  reactions to the Sun/UV daily cycle then:  1 it is destroyed, 2 it stays unchanged, 3 it changes and becomes more stable (it becomes life!)

Government money to the rich doesn't trickle down, it just adds up!

You say he's one in a million. That means there's 8,000 just like him!

Three "Independent" Nightly news programs cover the same stories often in the same order.  Who is telling all three what to do?

Running a government like a company means the people at the top have total control and the citizens do what they are told.

When you love someone in a TV show, do you love the actor or the screenwriter?

Where do twins like to vacation?  Pango, Pango!

Science is like sweeping dust into a dust pan - there's always a line of dust to go!

Remember when you see someone trip in a film, it's just make believe.

I have two eyes so I want two Moons!

The people that apologize are the people most likely not to offend.

This is a fragment or frag.

Mystery: grandfather's will is in the mystery cabinet!  May be worth 1,000 times more than the precious cabinet, may be worth a lot less than the antique.  What do you do to figure out the mystery of the cabinet?

Do you notice that when movie comedy gets too cerebral, along comes someone doing slapstick and the world goes crazy for it!

Do black holes have shadows?

"Now the Kangaroo's in your court!"

When you eat at a very expensive restaurant,
you have a vague feeling you didn't enjoy it enough!

Remember the rich can't run a democracy without cheating.

Each sun that rises also sets.

Comedy is serious business - it's nothing to laugh at!

Don't worry about it being perfect, in time your memory will solve that.

Hammering nails into air.

Sometimes only a rhinoceros will walk with another rhinoceros.

Polish a brick and you still have a brick.

The last straw was a needle!

Every house is a little haunted

If it has a lid, we want to lift it.

The economy is so bad that even hot cakes aren't selling like hot cakes!

I love astronomy - it's so spacey!

They were the perfect couple: She was controlling, and He was out of control.

[In Exasperation] "It's always dialogue with you!"

I was working on chaos theory but my mind began to wander.

Build your house on rock, but sleep on a pillow.

I found a present before my Birthday.
Mother: forget you saw that!
Me: How do I forget?

Pollutors need to tell us why money for them is more important than the planet is for us.

Everything under the sun has a shady side.

Great art never lies.

Catnip Nature!

A painting doesn’t’ become great until the magic enters it. You don’t know what that magic is, but you know if it's there or not.

Work hard. Play fair. Sleep well.

When you do what’s right, you don’t need propaganda.

High tide removes all footprints.

He’s a fan without air.

There are some people who will do whatever you tell them, except think for themselves.

On troubled times: Men are scorned, and boys rule.

I'm investing my retirement savings in Pagers! I think they're due for a comeback!

The more edits in a film, the more dreamlike it is. The fewer edits, the more realistic it is.

Math equation. The worse the arts get, the more award shows there are.

The Hulk had the best lines!  (TV review).

A no hit wonder has no career. A one hit wonder has a career for life.

When everyone's a winner, winning is meaningless.

Even with water he couldn't grow rust.

On the Walt Disney Concert Hall by  architect Frank Gehry:
I prefer a little less Goofy.

(On  trolls and contrarians) Don’t be a lawyer, don’t be a red pen, don’t be a footnote.

(On movements against science) And Galileo is still in jail!

Hubris as stiff as a Pilgrim's collarl

Never has so much been owned by so few to the detriment of so many!

How much fire went into that chili?

The public is a strange brew.

We must accept the fact that those that disagree with us can be moral too.

Do birds need a bridge?

We're living on the edge of the ever present now!

"God is a lot like me", says everybody!

Never has so much, been owned by so few, to the detriment of so many!

Note: When either political party attacks the other,
it most often attacks the WOMEN of the other party.

It takes darkness ...
to see stars!

if it were winter all year long,
who among us could imagine spring?

Reality’s border wavers.

On the Mainstream Press: ‘Media-ocrity’
(The Press is a Mess).

Every door has two sides.

Accurate in forest, vague in trees.

You can't sow weeds and reap wheat.

If you cover another's music and you give it too much respect; you deny all the energy, originality, rebellion, and rashness the composer put into the original!

There is a difference between a fair chance and a free ride!

Every year I live in a bigger world!

Natural selection leads to:
social behavior leads to:
love

"Sybil", by Velazquez: simply perfect and perfectly simple!

Even if I am completely wrong in my physics ideas, I've written a viable alternative universe.

Houston - like a swamp without the beauty of a swamp!

I AM mid century modern!

The problem with many westerns is that no one anticipates the future, or the changes going on then.

Sexy is something others say about you, not you about yourself!

Reviewer: If you want all good reviews, go talk to your mom.

Solutions are the other half of good journalism.

One wants a simple life, if it's too complicated;
and a more complicated life, if it's too simple.

Leaf blowers, the best way to waste gas, make excessive noise, and promote allergies.

She fell in the water and argued her way out of being wet!

We are all particles, so wave!

Sieve logic: full of holes.

Quasi Motors - "Car Repair With Bells On"

Musicians, stop playing before the audience stops listening!

All thunder, no rain.

Women are oblivious to how provocatively they are dressed; but let another woman show too much, and they see that immediately!

Spring visits every town.

You don’t get married to shake hands.

Miracle Watches: if it works, it's a Miracle!

It’s a capital idea that just needs capital.

The real scary monster for 12 year old boys is puberty.

Child reply to Mom: I bet dinosaurs didn't have manners!

Funny the older my photos are, the younger I look!

Just like the zero advance math, so the eraser advanced art.

Nature seems to tell us that God is not a melodramatic God, but a methodical one.

The problem with heightened security is that it never goes away, even after the danger is long gone.

Rhode Island, the closet state; because, there is no ‘room’!

That ‘apple of mother’s eye’ is spoiled rotten!

Headline: ‘Blues singer wins lottery but looses livelihood’.

Some acorns fall in the shadow of the oak.

On my life: Could be a little better, could be a lot worse.

On a shallow movie, “The Preview had more depth!”

Intelligence takes reflection and reflection takes time.

Great new art causes you to flinch then recoil and come back. It has a built in necessary period of adjustment.

Dumbest stump in the forest.

When smoke coils backwards, candles grow.

When music goes south, it ends up in Austin!

On censorship: ‘Matchless book burning”.

Auto tune and pitch correction are the astro turf of music.

Painters ahead of their time develop a crust

The aim of my keyboard bagatelles. 
Precision of Bach, Melody of Mozart.

The older I get, the more I can get away with!

The only way NYC art distinguishes itself now is it's ability to get the most money from the least art!

Part of great art is it's ability to communicate its message clearly.

Uptight clothes means an uptight society.

MUSE - keteers!

When you perform with electric guitars, bass, and drums; you are not an alternative to anything anymore, but innovation.

My music style.  Think Haiku not novel.

Too often very close siblings come from very distant parents.

Countries that are burning down their forests:  That is like burning wood you take off your house, to keep warm. 

We don't live on a safe Earth yet.  Too many people can't be free without being afraid of consequences for their actions, actions that most nations feel are the rights for all people.  Be safe till we all can be safe.

People magazine just came out with their world's most Beautiful People List - the photo shop edition!

Even the most peaceful person kills billions of bacteria.

Remember not every energy solution needs massive amounts of money, big business, or high tech.  People Power!

Is phony the new real?

Jazz changed America, but rock and roll changed the world!

Poverty grinds

Strong contrasting colors suggests a painter in conflict.

There is always a Raven perched on Pallas!

Paint by number abstract!

She has a personality that nobody can detect.

Does the cat know he’s in church?

The great ovation that greets a performer as he comes on stage; is also a challenge by the audience - OK top that!

X: Where in Dallas do you live?
Y: Near the double "L".

Once you have a stable chemical system, then you have 4 billion years to tinker with it. (On the origin of life).

His birthstone was dust.

Millions of people are afraid of the dark, but why isn't anyone angry at the dark?

He's out to lunch and not paying the check!

Art term for my style : sensual minimalism.

Does everything evolve except Darwin’s theory?

Talking too big, thinking too small.

Artists do it stroke by stroke.

Don’t aim that point of view at me!

My new How To Painting Book: How to Paint Ghosts, Clouds that have Dissipated, and Thin Air.

The first idea is seldom the best.

Value truth over credentials.

It’s like conceptual art – it’s worth nothing.

Remember this, if the old ideas worked we wouldn't have the problem!

Sometimes love isn’t blind enough!

"1984" was a book - not a lifestyle!

On Learning Math:
Student:  Why do I need to know algebra? I’ll never use it!
Teacher:  Not in serving fries!

The next Barbie is Doll Maker Barbie.

The next generation will shun social media like the plague.

She was one who smiled too quickly.

Virtually every great artist that came out of Dallas went out of Dallas!

Trendy is built into every 'ism in art.

X: If your house was on fire, what would you save first?
Y: An extinguisher?

I wish chocolate bars were twins.

Be daring - Wing it!

The first building built was not a skyscraper.

Are you in the chorus, or a solo artist?

Like I tell my guitar, 'Please stay tuned.’

Hope soars.

Whether its this wine or that wine, its still wine!

People who don’t wear a mask – I avoid like the plague!

The oasis of civilization.

That’s like a sax solo in the middle of the Moonlight Sonata (first movement.)

A song with a wide range in the melody is lighter than one with a limited range.

Let the windmills tilt themselves.

Stay lit!

Last Century Derivative!  ( most art today! )

Everyone gets a thorn in their paw.

Song title: I may be wrong but you’re still stupid!

Black hole of need.

I can’t listen to you in that dress.

How can I be 70? I feel like 23 and sore.

So instead of a zoo of weird particles, we are looking at different waves that combine, transform, or decay – each with other different particles.

Buksforus: the new drug you need to ask your doctor about. Side effects, lean wallets, and empty pockets.
In clinical trials, only M&Ms were found to be better.

High times and misdemeanors.

Remember when music was fun and not a corporate ploy?

The arts and media revolution will win through default because it is built on the talent of many not the promotion of a few.

Light is eternal.
(Photons are outside space-time, outside distance and time, are eternal; and all in a single dimensionless point.)

At my age you have to be twice as careful and half as stupid!

If the founding fathers came back today and you asked them, What do you think about the internet? They’d respond,
"Where are the horses?"

The daily cycle of UV light forced selection on chemicals, and led to life.

Singer: Was I on key? 
Manager: Many times!!!

The best musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers now are people you’ve never heard of!

Nature is never clever. It’s simple and elegant.

I hope all your photons are light!

We love a song because it sounds like the record. Live versions are often a disappointment, because a better live version is difficult.

The Beatles are one of the Top Ten of ... everything.

Simple songs are more popular because they are easier to remember: but they also wear out faster on multiple plays. Complex song are less popular but don't wear out as quickly on repeated hearings

Law needed: 5 or less companies can't control 70% of any industry. (The Five Law.)

The first thing corporations do when they corner a market is block out customer complains. Second, they block creativity, and replace it with a single marketing ploy.

Most adults can learn to read music in about 2 hours.  Stubborn musicians may take longer.

Do you listen to music or stare at it?  Videos have got to go!

Songwriter problems?  Walk away for 2-3 minutes, or even an hour, and problem will be solved. Not inspiration, it's the way the mind works.  Use biology to help.

I've written over 2,800 songs.  Try a few hundred and see what you think!

Everyone grows up at 30.

Look to the old for stability, look to the young for change.

Which better guarantees security for the US; another war in a distant land, or ending poverty within the US?

At a certain point of always looking within yourself ; you come out the other side, and have to relate to others and the world around you.

Some say that the mind is all, and we control our lives, our moods, our fate; but the universe around us has power too; and it will have it's say!

There is more than one horizon.

If you were dancing with an angel, would you try to take the lead?

Leaf blowers, for those who think a broom is too much zen!

I think I've just seen how the universe works! - th.

Psy-ance makes you Psy-mart.  T-shirt idea.

Loner?  He thinks cats are too friendly.

I believe in the hope of something.

Musea, a one person think tank.

If you can't tell a rich person's decorated home from an antique store, maybe it's too much!

Hollywood, has jumped the shark!

Waxahatchie - they made the name so long so it would connect to all the cities around it.

Bio Beauty:  beauty that comes from being young.

Whack a mole, wars.

Gun owners have two responsibilities: 1.Take care of their own guns and 2. Keep guns out of the hands of those who commit mass murders or suicide.

As people, they were just people.  As musicians they were magic - Beatles.

Nations with little diversity center attention on small differences.

While others think A,B,C;   I go A, X, 6, Blue, Scent of flower.

Reporter: so what is your secret to living so long.
Elder:  I want to get even with people!

Do a book of the longest sentences of Henry James.

A snake can't have a rabbit for a child

Modern Art isn't modern anymore.

When you start out beautiful, little differences stand out.

One idiot in power, causes a world of sorrow.

Hey rich, the happiness you are so desperate for, comes from sharing, not hoarding.

Art is more than pencil photographs at one end, or incomprehensible goofiness ar the other.

Women, guys think about sex as much as you think about food.

It's so hot in Texas that we have to drive in the shade!

You can only judge how beautiful a person is on first meeting. After that their personality takes over and augments or distracts the picture.

If this van is rockin', the engine is knockin' - bumper sticker

For all of history, until now - innovative musicians were leading the mainstream, not marginalized by it.

Just as the last century was fragmented into 'isms' in art; this century will do the  opposite and bring all the styles together in an inclusive art.

What will we grow in our garden, green thumbs or weeds?

A pretty girl is famous wherever she goes.

Readymades : (excerpted words written by others, that make a great poem on their own.)

Granting that all life is chance and blind bumping in the night; we still are moving, and moving forward, and moving toward something that always seems to be more enlightened, more spiritiual, more heaven like.

Numbers count!

Corporations are people? Then let's draft those people into the army.

Everybody's got a book but nobody's got a reader!

You are arguing with the tires, not the driver.

The camera adds 10 pounds?   What did you use, 4 cameras?

When the bottom bricks crumble the top falls too.

When you get to meaningless, you get to the point.

Journalism has now shifted from research, writing, editing, to an anchor asking, "What do you think?"  or even worse, "What do you feel?"

The choice: an armed state starting with airports, schools, and government buildings; or reasonable gun laws that keep guns out of the wrong hands.

With gerrymandering and other voting poll tricks, voting is more a rubber stamp then a consensus.

That woman is beautiful in any language!

Q. Where did my glass go?
A. Scotland!

More Hemingway - less Henry James - keep it simple.

Musea, a one person think tank.

Simplify! Edit! Intensify!

Plagues are not nice - either respect their danger or be stupid!

My path in physics is like following a trail of bread crumbs. I say, "Oh!" pick it up, and see another straight ahead!

Let's say there are only 3 professional teams in world soccer and none of the players are very good; but still they get paid all the money ... That's the music industry today!

Wave = W.  Mirror wave = M.

Visitor to England:  Everyone here has an accent!

Media, if the only news you report of a foreign country is bad news; then you're portraying them as barbaric.  That is one sided journalism.

Chirotic feeling, a bitter sweet joy, is in all great art - but in painting it's immediate and instant!

No brand names on my clothes - I am a person, not a billboard.

The hour glass ticks!

All my recordings have at least one mistake in them.  That's my signature!

When a kid said he LIKED rock and roll in the 50's, he was an outcast. Now if a kid says he HATES rock, he's an outcast.  See the difference?

Just a cog in everyone else's life!

Most people's favorite music was the music playing during puberty.

A rising tide raises all boats ... or drowns you.

Like putting a band aid on a band aid on a band aid on a band aid ...

People say "Tom you seem a little bitter." and I say, "Yes and I've earned every drop!"

Here is the difference between the sexes - when a man turns down a woman's advances; he's not afraid of being killed!

Don't versa your vice!

Corporations that are too big to fail, are too big to oppose.

That's like putting braille on a painting!

How many candles can one candle light?

Like a cactus drinking in the rain ....

The strongest country, the biggest army, and the most afraid!

Is Heaven a gated community?

As rare as sheet music for spoons players.

Enjoy the stairs!

The greatest invention may be a system that ends bureaucracy.

Your employees should love working there, but not at the expense of customers.
Your customers should love shopping there, but not at the expense of the workers.
Your employees and customers should love the company, but not at the expense of reasonable profits that keep it going!

Can't climb a mountain with one step!

Don't blame the kids; they don't like this music either!

Black holes are the speed bumps of space.

Writers dilemma: If you write too smart - no one will read it; if you write too dumb you can't express anything worthwhile.

Jerk In the Room - the person in a drama or comedy that causes all the problems that the others have to react to.

I can play John Cage's 4'33" piece in 2 minutes flat!

The language for communication with animals is love.

The problem with most fixes is not, it's too little too late; but it's too much too late, that overcompensates for the problem, and never goes away, even after problem is solved.

Pet Dog Guitar plays like a chorus of trumpets!

You can't shake a hand with one hand.

Three Sayings About Texas:

Texas, an Indian word that means, “Better than where YOU came from!”

Though I wasn’t born in Texas, I’ve lived here longer than most people that were.

You fill a glass with ice and there’s not much room for drink! (On Alaska bigger than Texas???)

K Pop is the first music of the online world, and this century.

Asteroid definition - Rock Star!

A trapezoid is not a dinosaur

Some people are a black hole of need.

The town where reality stays in the car.

Crickets, tumbleweeds, and yawns.

Their chemistry was good, but their biology was even better!

I was a tight rope walker; but never got off the ground floor.

If there was fair voting, none of you politicians would be in office!

If my call was important to them, would I still be on hold?

The family broke like a dropped china plate.

It's easier to forgive than forget.

I think I made a mistake ... if I'm not mistaken.

I'm sure he had a personality, but I couldn't find it.

A duck is nature's way of honking!

This is a film where I play myself.  Hope I don't get typecast.

I used to treat paintings as if I was putting on its makeup. Now it's more like wrestling with the canvas!

Lots of people are pointing a finger, but few are lifting one!

The sky is my umbrella.

For new social programs, first you take care of the vast majority; then you weed out the few cheats and crooks.

The public decides on one thing per celebrity to fixate on.

In the 50's if you were smart you smoked a pipe.  But if you were really smart, you didn't.

Tomatoes will grow for anyone

Let government employees suggest cost cuts and get 1% of the first years savings. A billion here, a billion there, it all adds up!

When you ruin all competition, you also ruin the business.

He's a match who thinks he's the Sun!

Who's not to fall for someone like her?  Even the women stumble!

Leave her alone.  She will either grow out of it, or grow into it.

I'm a support animal.

Whining - when you are on your 3rd glass.

There should be a weight limit on those stretch pants!

There is a thin line between fashion and costume

One thief ruins 100 honest people.

DNA is a computer - not 1 and 0 but A/T and G/C with each pair denaturing in different temperatures such that the sun cycle is the programmer.

I fact check with a Ouija board

Band name: Twombly and the Cursive Curls

Even bacteria have enemies.

Lawyer: Hi, I'm from Morgan, Morgan, and Morgan.
Client: Which one are you?

Of the 100% who like my music, 90% know how to improve it.

The child asks, "Do they have a Moon in Korea?"

The mirror reflects everyone without prejudice.

The Dakotas, the Carolinas, the Virginias, will never get back together.

Texas the state that doesn't have an accent.

There's no single answer, because it's a double problem!

The only people that win wars are arms manufacturers.

Will he catch the flying acrobat?  It's up in the air!

The only way to sum up a life is to live it.

If the music industry was based on talent, music would change every week!

Even the Internet says this is a scam!

That new baby is like a house, you pay the mortgage forever!

You are an argument train with 100 cars.

Not all trolls are online.

You can't horde donuts, You've got to eat them now!

In Indian films, flying saucers from space land in India.

Wormholes, string theory, many worlds, Oh My!

Matter in the universe is more like dust in the wind.

Innovate, not imitate!

Sometimes the mouse leads the herd!

He likes to call life insurance companies and while asking questions, cough a lot!

Only hard headed people are consistent.

Most social problems can be solved, not by being extra kind, but by being less cruel!

Every family has one or two that would be voted out if they could!

Dog - a two year old with a full set of teeth!

Onion Eyes: real tears but fake emotions.

That person has a needle for every nerve I've got!

If the streets were paved with gold, you'd still get tired of it.

Assisted living, or Resisted living?

The force from acceleration is anti gravity, not gravity!

While big countries posture, small countries suffer!

He was a charming boy; but, not much of a man.

When you have too much, you value too little!

It's easy to imagine a RED door!

The bigger the city, the stranger the enclaves.

He is so old, he's over two hills!

Karma,  like a boomerang!

Nature is never clever, but always elegant.

(c) Tom Hendricks 2024.