All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
BRIAN ENOWhatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Law is always better than war.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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