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.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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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.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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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.
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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.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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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.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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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.
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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.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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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.
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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
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Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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One of the reasons religions are widely accepted is spiritual laziness and its resulting fear.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.
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The so-called oligarchs have always had less influence than conventional wisdom attributed to them.
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The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.
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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
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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.
