Ian Burden (Ian Charles Burden) Quotes
It wasn’t a challenge because I worked it that way from the outset. I just had to find ways of connecting between songs in different key signatures and different time signatures. Playing it live would mean recruiting a lot of musicians, but not impossible.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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To go back means defeat.
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I can't wait to be a mom, but I can wait.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.
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I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
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I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.
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It wasn’t a challenge because I worked it that way from the outset. I just had to find ways of connecting between songs in different key signatures and different time signatures. Playing it live would mean recruiting a lot of musicians, but not impossible.
