Tim Gane famous quotes

Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.
-- Tim Gane

#Simple #Thinking #Way

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
-- Tim Gane

#Heart #Writing #Thinking

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.
-- Tim Gane

#Opposites #Band #Normal

My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop.
-- Tim Gane

#Records #London #Stuff

A lot of inspiration comes from the sounds that we are attracted to when we come across them in our experiments and may lead us into a certain direction because of inherent possibilities we hear in them.
-- Tim Gane

#Inspiration #Sound #May

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!
-- Tim Gane

#Band #Punk

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.
-- Tim Gane

#Records #Buying #Week

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

To justify God's ways to man.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.