Geoff Downes Quotes
I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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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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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
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I am honoured that my fans worked so hard to help me win Best Act Ever at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards.
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I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.
