Liam Howlett Quotes
The music business is like a big trap and that's why I never like to put both feet into it - I like to stand back and laugh at it, because if you jump into the mainstream completely then you are never going to escape. ---Songs like 'Firestarter' burst into the mainstream and bend it, twist it. Then we retreat back underground. That's the best way.
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If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
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Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
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I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.
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The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.
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There's nothing that the road cannot heal
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Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
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You baby harvesting demon maggots! I'll never back down I'll never bow to you, I'll be free till the day I stop sucking air into my lungs.
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No segment of the population has lost more by the agendas of the liberal constituencies of the Democratic Party than the black population. The teachers' unions, environmental fanatics and the ACLU are just some of the groups to whose interests blacks have been sacrificed wholesale. Lousy education and high crime rates in the ghettos, and unaffordable housing elsewhere with building restrictions, are devastating prices to pay for liberalism.
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The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What is new is that Western science is slowly beginning to realize that some elements of that ancient lore might be correct.
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When people come up to me and say 'oh, your singing made me cry', it's nice to realise that you're making other people happy, but I don't know how I do it. I just sing.
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I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.
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When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
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The music business is like a big trap and that's why I never like to put both feet into it - I like to stand back and laugh at it, because if you jump into the mainstream completely then you are never going to escape. ---Songs like 'Firestarter' burst into the mainstream and bend it, twist it. Then we retreat back underground. That's the best way.
