Irmin Schmidt Quotes
“We never cared about what people expected. I always imagined if one day we would go onstage again, people would think: ‘No, this isn’t Can. This is another group – we are in the wrong place.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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I have never used steroids. Period.
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I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
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I will fully engage myself to maintain CERN's excellence in all its attributes, with the help of everybody, including CERN Council, staff and users from all over the world.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.
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If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way.
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...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.
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“We never cared about what people expected. I always imagined if one day we would go onstage again, people would think: ‘No, this isn’t Can. This is another group – we are in the wrong place.
