Colin Marston famous quotes

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.
-- Colin Marston

#Wish #Miserable #Projects

None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.
-- Colin Marston

#Band #Demand #Able

I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them.
-- Colin Marston

#Thinking #Needs #Band

I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.
-- Colin Marston

#Fans #Abstract #Aesthetic

I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.
-- Colin Marston

#Thinking #Black #Done

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.
-- Colin Marston

#Black #Musical #Sound

As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted.
-- Colin Marston

#Goal #Black #Pseudonyms

I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.
-- Colin Marston

#Player #Two #People

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.

I'm the guy who puts projects together.

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