Paul Banks Quotes
When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam Fogarino. Greg ex-drummer is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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I wanted to be a professional drummer.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
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Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.
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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
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The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
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Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.
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Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.
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I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.
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I said last week, we've gotta take care of the ball, especially in the first game. Once we lost the lead, we were chasing after that. When something bad happened, we dwelled on that. Not everybody. When that happens, we have to have a short memory and move on.
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I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.
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When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam Fogarino. Greg ex-drummer is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."
