Irmin Schmidt Quotes
Different parts, when they come together, it creates something new. And that’s what Can is. It’s not the sum of us four – it’s something new.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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Different parts, when they come together, it creates something new. And that’s what Can is. It’s not the sum of us four – it’s something new.
