Bernie Krause Quotes
Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.
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You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans.
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Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.
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Somewhere down the line, I realised that dairy products were giving me acidity, so now I am a vegan.
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In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.
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As time goes by, especially in the last few years, I’ve lost the knack of being a person. I no longer know how one is supposed to be. And an entirely new kind of ‘solitude of not belonging’ has started invading me like ivy on a wall.
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Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.
