Grant Hart famous quotes

I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.
-- Grant Hart

#Thinking #Financial #Problem

I'm not a tech fan. I don't get that charge that comes from having the new little gizmo in your pocket. Maybe I'm a dinosaur. There's nothing battery-operated that will help me write songs any differently from the way I've done it for years.
-- Grant Hart

#Song #Writing #Done

Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.
-- Grant Hart

#Something New #Handy #Pens

I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm satisfied trading off the immediacy to fulfill the detailed work of the artistic end of things.
-- Grant Hart

#Silly #Artistic #Compromise

I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.
-- Grant Hart

#Hippie #Ridiculous #Punk

I've delved into a lot of non-musical projects. Learning new things and accomplishing things with my hands that I put aside as an adult to devote all my time to music. As I've gotten older, I've been concentrating on quality and no filler, and spending more time constructing all of the parts of music, rather than going into the studio with one or two parts and then letting the rest work itself out.
-- Grant Hart

#Quality

I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.
-- Grant Hart

#Real #Stupid #Music Business

I think a lot of people are having their midlife crisis in public. I think if you left something unfinished, go ahead and do it. But I guess I can't really answer that question in respect to my own music, because it's inconceivable.
-- Grant Hart

#Thinking #People #Music Is

People love a conflict. Artistic conflict is not like that at all. It's just wanting your own space, it's not wanting what the other person has. And we dissolved at a good time - we were very close to the top of our game.
-- Grant Hart

#People #Good Times #Artistic

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression,

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

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