"I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly that I'd never be a technical electronic musician."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Anna Meredith

#Important Quotes #Musician Quotes #Crafts Quotes

“It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.”
“Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.”
“Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.”
“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.”
“Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.”
“Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.”
“I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.”
“I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.”

Source : Sir Egerton Brydges (1824). “Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron”, p.340

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