"Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic."

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Source : "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

Dan Bejar

#Thinking Quotes #Fire Quotes #Band Quotes

“I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.”
“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”
“I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.”
“Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.”
“I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.”
“Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft.”
“What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.”

Source : Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster
“The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.”

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