Chris Stein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.
-- Chris Stein

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CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.
-- Chris Stein

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The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.
-- Chris Stein

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In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.
-- Chris Stein

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In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
-- Chris Stein

#Math #Profound #Feelings
A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
-- Chris Stein

#Hipster #Culture #Today

I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
All my songs are where I am.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engineâ€¦ Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

Chris Stein famous quotes

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