"Back then and later on when I was in NEU! and Harmonia I was too much preoccupied with my own music to be aware of the German music scene, let alone following it actively. But changes which were happening with S.o.S. (namely the development of individual ideas and the effort to distinguish from the Anglo- American rock patterns) also helped me recognize other musicians within my immediate vicinity."

-- Michael Rother

#Rocks Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Greg Maddux is probably the best pitcher in all of baseball along with Roger Clemens. He's much more intelligent than I am because he doesn't have a 95 or 98 mph fastball. I would tell any pitcher who wants to be successful to watch him, because he's the true definition of a pitcher.”
“I don't get the animosity when someone tells a joke that you don't like. Whereas if someone made a dish that you don't like if you went to a restaurant, you would either try another dish or you just don't go back to that restaurant. But you don't say like, "I did not like the hamburger here. This restaurant should be shut down. It should be banned from making hamburgers. No one else should have these hamburgers." And everyone else is like, "No, you wouldn't do that."”
“I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.”
“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”
“A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.”
“Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.”
“You donâ€™t have to have vision to be a visionary”
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

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