"You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done.""

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Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

David Longstreth

#Thinking Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Done Quotes

“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.”
“Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.”
“I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in.”

Source : Interview with Susan Sarandon, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.
“Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.”
“The love of money grows as the money itself grows.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 521-24, XIV, line 139, 1922.
“Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.”
“John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him. We were in the middle of a scene and [Selma director] Ava DuVernay calls, "Cut," and then he literally just came in. He just came walking in.I just froze. I can't explain the feeling. Seeing somebody who was literally a living hero. He was a hero.”

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