"There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Glenn Branca

#Real Quotes #Rocks Quotes #People Quotes

“You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.”
“American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.”
“Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.”

Source : Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA
“Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.”
“There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.”
“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”

Source : Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.51, University of Chicago Press
“Art still has truth. Take refuge there.”

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