Neil Farber Quotes
I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
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I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
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A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
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I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
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The big deal is not that a computer technician made a mistake, ... The big deal is how the White House reacted to it.
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I remember loving that album, ... Frampton took me into the studio and played me that album and I thought it was the greatest party album that I'd heard in a long time, and so I wrote the liner notes and the album became huge.
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
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I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.
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I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.
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Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.
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Lincoln - they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.
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I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
