Rafael Vinoly Quotes
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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My word is iron," Kublai said to the guards, as Meng Guang was led away. "Your people will come to know this, in time.
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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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The motto of my Jesuit high school was 'Men for others.' I've tried to live that creed.
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[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.
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How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
