Stefon Harris Quotes
Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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You've got to be realistic.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
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In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.
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All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.
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While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.
