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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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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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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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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Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
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The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.
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In the U.S., our work with law enforcement focuses on criminal computer networks. With legitimate businesses that copy software illegally, we generally follow through with a civil suit.
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The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.
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I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
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things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.
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Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.
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Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
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I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
