Aphex Twin (Richard David James) Quotes
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
Quotes to Explore
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
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Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.
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Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.
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I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.
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A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
