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Stephin Merritt

"Well, things hold up even if they sound dated. It can be very difficult to listen to 80s pop songs with really, really gigantic smashed drum sounds. You just want to turn that gated reverb down on the snare. It sounds wrong now. It sounds amateurish. And ugly. But at the time it sounded state-of-the-art. So yeah, I think it's important not to sound state-of-the-art in a way that anybody else is going to sound. Or you'll quickly sound like yesterday's state-of-the-art."

-- Stephin Merritt

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes

“Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.”
“Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (1991). “Awash with Roses: The Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, Small PressDistribution
“Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.”
“I love doing things that people don't expect.”
“Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping”
“Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.”
“The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.138, A&C Black
“And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to you. That is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning and the thunderbolt falling tomorrow night. That is as sure as the god's existence. I will come back to you, or I will find you - over and over again, as often as we are parted, until the end of the world itself.”

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