"The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Ben Lee

#Song Quotes #Communication Quotes #Please Me Quotes

“The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has lived with strict justice and perfect integrity, he passes beyond the tower of Cronus to the fair realm that cannot be reached by land or sea, where gentle breezes from a placid ocean blow forever on the fields of asphodel. For a description, see Pindar. If the beauty of great poetry can commend a religion, here you have it.”

Source : "Afterthoughts on Afterlife". "Instauration" Magazine, August 1980.
“I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.”
“Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.”
“Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.”
“My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I learned a long time ago that if you're going to tell a story about your retarded sister, you need to mention she's retarded right off the bat or inevitably, at the end of the story, someone will say, What... is she, retarded? And then you have to go, Uh... yeah, she is. Followed by a lengthy, awkward silence.”
“I don't like concrete jungles.”
“Iâ€™m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because thatâ€™s what the British bequeathed us”
“When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'”

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