One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
ALAN COOPERWhen I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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