{"author":"Prince","author_id":"Prince","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.","author":"Prince","tags":["ephemeral","time","transience"],"id":13593,"author_id":"Prince"},{"text":"Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.","author":"Prince","tags":["good","digital","you "],"id":41067,"author_id":"Prince"},{"text":"Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.","author":"Prince","tags":["beach","ideas","song "],"id":102279,"author_id":"Prince"},{"text":"Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.","author":"Prince","tags":["music","problem","sharing "],"id":150907,"author_id":"Prince"},{"text":"Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.","author":"Prince","tags":["success"],"id":217347,"author_id":"Prince"},{"text":"I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.","author":"Prince","tags":["funny","blessed","friend "],"id":218970,"author_id":"Prince"},{"text":"My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me.","author":"Prince","tags":["day","mother","me "],"id":275783,"author_id":"Prince"},{"text":"Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.","author":"Prince","tags":["building","foundation","new "],"id":302843,"author_id":"Prince"},{"text":"What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why...","author":"Prince","tags":["lie","the-truth","truth"],"id":306074,"author_id":"Prince"},{"text":"Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.","author":"Prince","tags":["morality","music","right","temptation","wrong"],"id":316514,"author_id":"Prince"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}