"When somebody brings me a record to mix, usually they feel like they can only get it so far with who they were working with or with themselves, and they just want somebody with fresh ears to take it to the next level. I just try to have a candid, open conversation with them about each song before we start working on it."

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Source : "John Congleton: Meet Indie Rock's Unsung Hero Of 2011". Interview with Mike Katzif, www.npr.org. December 23, 2011.

John Congleton

#Song Quotes #Trying Quotes #Next Level Quotes

“A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.”
“A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.”
“One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.”
“Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'”
“Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.”
“Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.”

Source : "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by Maurice Samuel (p. 162), 1948.
“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”

Source : "The Power of Introverts". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.
“Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.”

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