Doug Aitken Quotes
We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.
Quotes to Explore
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
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I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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J-Hope always tries to cheer us up, and I'm so grateful. Actually, I like to call him a new leader for the group.
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I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.
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We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.
