Guy Picciotto famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.
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I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard.
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When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.
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I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.
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I really think of the studio as being like craftsmanship time, and then playing is about releasing energy, and the two are really different.
-- Guy Picciotto
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There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.
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I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
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At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
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The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.
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The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.
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I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.
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