Irmin Schmidt Quotes

I’m no longer an avant-garde artist, out to shock, I want people to enjoy my music.

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• I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Music
  • Cool
  • Couple

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Judge
  • Audience
  • Decisions

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • School
  • Medicine
  • Grammar

• I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• How'm I doing?

  

  Ed Koch
  • Doing

• I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Emotional

• There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Country
  • Girl

• 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Favorite
  • Novels
  • George

• Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Food

• In a typical day, I would wake up about 8 A.M., pile all my stuff into my mom's minivan - my guitar, my amp, CDs to sell, a table and a rug - drive it down to the street, and unload it all. I'd wait until about 12, then play for two hours. You could only play in two-hour intervals, so then I would move it all somewhere else.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Up
  • Mom

• People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Important
  • Help

• It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Important
  • Experience

• Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Lost

• I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • People
  • True

• I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • World
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Painting
  • Canvas

• People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

  

  Pierre Schaeffer
  • People
  • Music
  • Revolution

• I’m no longer an avant-garde artist, out to shock, I want people to enjoy my music.

  

  Irmin Schmidt Can
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Shock