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'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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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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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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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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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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I love New York. Love it.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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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.
