"Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Colin Meloy

#Ambitious Quotes #Kind Quotes #Advent Quotes

“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”

Source : Attributed in "Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995" by Charles W. Tolman, (p. 31), 1996.
“Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.”
“No place better than Indiana on July 4th. Looking forward to a great weekend.”
“London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.”
“And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.”
“The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.”
“Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin 'helping' them. Such a world does not exist â€” never has.”

Source : "Why Women’s History Month" by Ruth Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

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