"I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive."

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Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

Colin Meloy

#Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes #Mainstream Culture Quotes

“Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.”
“If the Saints call, naturally I will consider taking their request to the Board of Supervisors. Because they're our Saints, too, and we're all in this together. But obviously, I couldn't do anything without board action.”
“Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above.”

Source : Francesca Marciano (1998). “Rules of the Wild”, Pantheon
“We cannot stand by and allow the future of our country to be undermined by the reality of American children going hungry! Please join in to help the 12 million children who are malnourished in our country.”
“Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effectâ€”the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.”
“The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.”
“My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.”
“Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.”

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