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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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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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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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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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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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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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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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I still enjoy having my own idea about what a song means. I don't know if I'd have liked having videos on TV when I was growing up. I always found my own mental images to be very strong and appealing. I hope that we're not limiting the imaginations of the fans out there.
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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.
