"I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now."

-- Stewart Copeland

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“In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.”
“We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.”
“Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.”
“Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.”
“I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.”
“If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.”
“A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.”
“The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.”

Source : Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.29, Lexington Books

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