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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I remember when I read the screenplay for 'Sicario,' I fell in love with it, but at the same time, I went, 'Oh no, not again.' I mean, I would love to fall in love with something that is more light, like a rom-com or a comedy. I would love to. Because it's very demanding to go to dark places like this.
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When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
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I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.
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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.
