Ginger Baker (Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker) Quotes
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
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It's not a movie about, 'My dad and I, we hated each other and then we came to know that we loved each other.' No. I loved my dad. He was a great guy. I just didn't know him as an adult.
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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
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School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
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I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece .
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The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
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There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
