Brian Joseph Burton (Danger Mouse) Quotes

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

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• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

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• In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
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• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
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• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
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• If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
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• Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
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• God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

  

  D. A. Carson
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• We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

  

  Nazim Hikmet
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• Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!

  

  Walter Scott
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• Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

  

  Antonin Artaud

• The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways.

  

  Fred Wilson
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• I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
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• There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
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• By the time I graduated from high school in Vancouver, I already had a whole support network set up for me in Los Angeles, so I just moved down.

  

  Jason Priestley
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• I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

  

  Brad Feld
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• How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

  

  John Hurt
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• I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

  

  Sela Ward
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• If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

  

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