"Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did not turn their backs on it. It's an important part of their culture. So guitar music is an important part of their culture. So me being into rock music, I get respect working there, which wasn't happening in Europe or in the US."

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Source : Source: www.indieberlin.de

Gordon Raphael

#Rocks Quotes #Guitar Music Quotes #Europe Quotes

“Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.238, Columbia University Press
“When you're in film and you're in close, charisma in the eyes and confidence can take over. But when someone's sitting twenty rows back, you need the whole body. You need to be encompassed by an actor.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.
“I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.”
“Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!”
“Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.”
“Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.”
“The social network will be the new production line in a company,”

Source : CFR's annual Corporate Conference, New York, www.cfr.org. March 7, 2013.
“Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.”

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