Geoff Downes Quotes
The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.
Quotes to Explore
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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I don't like attacking.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.
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The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.
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The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.
