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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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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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 mean, why do people fight over sports? Because of the framework, the schematic of sports, those particular people seize upon these opportunities to be violent. And the number one problem using the same framework would be religion.
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You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
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Change is certain. Progress is not.
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If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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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.
