"The music I make is very underground-sounding, it doesn't sound like it goes into the charts. It doesn't sound like it's trying to fit into today's style. So I think I have already a vibrating tool to an art form that isn't the mainstream. I'm very outside of the mainstream in my taste of music."

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Source : Source: www.indieberlin.de

Gordon Raphael

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Style Quotes

“...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.”
“Bringing a direct connection between ENTER. and MINUS, Maceo Plex delivers his CONJURE TWO EP that represents both the stripped down sound of MINUS and the atmosphere of ENTER.Ibiza!”

Source : FaceBook post by Richie Hawtin from Jun 02, 2014
“Whatever you do....don't fall asleep.”
“The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.”
“People who eat white bread have no dreams.”

Source : Quoted in Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins The Power of Style (1994).
“Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.”
“It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.”
“No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.”

Source : Edwin Markham (1920). “Gates of Paradise and Other Poems: The Fourth Volume of Verse”

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