"I feel just as creative focusing on just the sounds and getting the photographic representation of where the sounds should be. But it's all the same bag of bones for me. It's hard for me to compartmentalize production and engineering, and that's why I can't produce things unless I'm also recording. It's very tactile. I need my hands in the dirt."

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Source : Source: www.wbur.org

John Congleton

#Creative Quotes #Bones Quotes #Representation Quotes

“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.”

Source : "Focusing". Book by Eugene Gendlin, 1978.
“Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.”
“It is always better to make your own mistakes and not someone else's.”
“What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.”

Source : "UN climate change deal needs more sacrifices by West, John Prescott warns" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2009.
“You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.”

Source : "Folk Music, Five Years & Funding". Q&A with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. October 22, 2012.
“It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.”
“And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.”
“Anything can be painted without representation.”

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