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Michael Azerrad

"To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself. Â The equation was simple: Â If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk. Â 'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control. Â It was like songwriting; you just do it. Â You want a record, you pay the pressing plant. Â That's what it was all about.'"

-- Michael Azerrad

#Simple Quotes #Keys Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“I love the whole lingerie outfit - you know, thigh-high tights and garters.”
“I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.”
“I think for some people real success would mean having all the money in the world and having everyone love you every minute of the day. I donâ€™t know if thatâ€™s really my aspiration. I just want to keep doing this. I just want to keep finding new ways and new paths and new territory. Every time I get to do it, it feels like freedom.”
“I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.”
“I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.”
“I set goals, but they're mostly very personal goals. I never try and set a goal where 'I want to win this,' or 'I want to do this,' where other people can affect what I do. If I want to swim a new best time, I sit down and work out the best way of doing that. Whether I can shave a few tenths of a second off a turn or the start, my goal is putting them all together in a race. That's the way I set my goals.”
“Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.109, Emblem Editions
“To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world”

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