Mr. Carmack famous quotes

I think true originality is perpetual. It's always rolling along. True originality is not like this award or trophy you get if you do something weird. It's with you if you have it, and it's still rolling along somewhere, you just gotta go find it. It takes time to reach that point, and understand true originality... I think we all can find it.
-- Mr. Carmack

#Thinking #Originality #Take Time

I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have collectively explored most of the grounds that music has to offer.
-- Mr. Carmack

#Artist #Originality #Internet

Sometimes artists can have the same sound, but they can give you a show that makes you see it in a completely different way.
-- Mr. Carmack

#Artist #Giving #Different

I think the key to really jumping out of that idea of saturation is longevity. I think that's the number one thing that allows artists to develop themselves more, is if they constantly do it. If you continue to put out consistently then your name will be known over a longer period of time.
-- Mr. Carmack

#Artist #Thinking #Longevity

Longevity is a huge factor in becoming separate from the mass of people that are just starting, or don't have any friends in the same realm, or don't really have the foundation. So it's good and bad, it's easy and it's hard. It's really what you make of it. Because if it's truly something that you really enjoy and obsess over, then waiting 10 years or waiting 30 years shouldn't be that big of a deal for you. As you get older and as you work harder, you see further down the road.
-- Mr. Carmack

#Hard Work #People #Waiting

You see further behind you, and you get a chance to see further down the road. I could make a project come out in two years because I can put money aside to wait until that time to do it. That's only because I've had the opportunity to write and put out music every day.
-- Mr. Carmack

#Writing #Opportunity #Waiting

Honestly, if you talk to a lot of artists that have either made it or have done something in music, chances are they'll tell you their family was in music too. Or one of their parents was in music. Or they had a fat record collection or something. Yeah, I owe everything to that.
-- Mr. Carmack

#Artist #Parent #Done

You Australian guys have your own way of speaking about music, you guys have your own way of enjoying music. You certainly have a very energised creative and cultural centre. Everyone I meet in Australia has a very unique soul... There's a lot of culture out there, and I meet a lot of nice people.
-- Mr. Carmack

#Nice #Unique #People

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

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...

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.