"I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Glenn Branca

#Thinking Quotes #Sound Quotes #Tools Quotes

“There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.”
“We have such a good time working together. It makes such a difference going to work every day for 14 hours and being able to hang out and have a good time.”
“NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.”
“If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively,”
“Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.”
“Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.”
“To my abusers: I forgive you.”

Source : Pattie Mallette, A. J. Gregory (2012). “Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom”, p.242, Baker Books
“Arsenal means every thing to me. I've been here since I was nine and I love the Club.”

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