David Torn Quotes
Looping isn't an effect: it's your playing, only more of it and, if you hang with it, it'll uncover previously hidden facets from the body of your music. Remember: the original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.
Quotes to Explore
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Life in California is beautiful.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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I love dressing up.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.
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I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
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The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we'd had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.
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Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.
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I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
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Looping isn't an effect: it's your playing, only more of it and, if you hang with it, it'll uncover previously hidden facets from the body of your music. Remember: the original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.
