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Authors
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
"How could I have kept out this incredible fiction? That's when it all started for me. I was, and still am, a HUGE Star Trek fan. "Songs Of The Ocean" is my tribute to this great story, and it's based on the Star Trek IV movie, the one in which they go back in time. [The Voyage Home ; It's the one where they bring a pair of whales to the future -ed.]" --
Source : "Arjen Lucassen: Human Or Intergalatic Space Crusader?". Interview with Igor Italiani, progressiveworld.net. April 2002.
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
#Song Quotes
#Stars Quotes
#Ocean Quotes
“I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.”
Source : Walter Moers (2008). “The City of Dreaming Books”, p.122, The Overlook Press
“I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.”
“Christians aren't making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They're making a historical one; they're saying that this thing happened just as surely and really as it happened that Julius Caesar became emperor of Rome. It's the kind of claim that can be thought about and investigated; it can be judged.”
“There is no right life in the wrong one.”
“Europe's biggest problem is its success.”
“A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly, home, the haven in a heartless world, as defined by men, cannot be used by them as an antidote to the workplace's discomforts and demands, if this means having the wife as a servicer.”
Source : Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”
“Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.”
“I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.”
