"I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when, in practice, I'm not thinking about that when I'm working over the keyboard, or musing over musical ideas in my head. But when discussing it, we want to have some new thought about this new music."

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Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

John Maus

#Thinking Quotes #Practice Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.”
“It truly is a little intimidating to go speak at a middle school. Sure, on one hand the kids are only around 13 years old, but on the other hand, merely going back there reactivates the dorky, miserable feeling of being that age again. It isn't easy. As soon as I arrived I could almost feel the braces on my teeth, the don't-look-at-me slouch of my shoulders, the feathered wings of my bangs.”
“The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.”

Source : Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Hours of Life: And Other Poems”, p.147
“The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.”
“It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.”

Source : Sara Maitland (2014). “A Big-Enough God: A Feminist's Search For A Joyful Theology”, p.179, Henry Holt and Company
“It's great to be young and insane.”
“The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.”

Source : Freeman Tilden (2009). “Interpreting Our Heritage”, p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press
“It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.”

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