Roddy Woomble famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I like patterns in words. I'm not really interested in meaning.
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I never trust songwriters who talk about what their song is about.
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Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.
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I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.
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I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.
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I suppose if a band is like a gang, it is a moment in time.
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I've made a living out of music since I was 19, which is something I'm really happy about.
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If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.
-- Roddy Woomble
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With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.
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The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.
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There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
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Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought
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Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.
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Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.
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The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience...
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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
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