"Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

Dan Deacon

#Music Is Quotes #Paradigm Quotes

“Everyone thinks my name is Jerry Laitis and they call me Mr Laitis. What can you do when you have a name that sounds like a disease?”
“Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.”
“When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.”
“The key function of banks is money creation, not intermediation.”

Source : Speech at the Conference “Fixing The Banking System For Good” in Philadelphia, USA, positivemoney.org. April 17, 2013.
“Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”
“There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you canâ€™t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives.”
“This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.”
“I can't cater to everyone's needs and what they're going to be offended by; that's one freedom I have.”

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