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“Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.”
Source : "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006. 
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“[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.”
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“Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed”
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“Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.”
Source : Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”
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“I'm mostly a jazz fan and I've never really been into rock 'n' roll music — although I guess Coldplay isn't really rock 'n' roll — but he's made me a convert. I do go to their concerts whenever we're in the same town and I don't even have to wear earplugs any more, which I did in the beginning.”
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“I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.”
Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.48, BoD – Books on Demand
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“The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long.”
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“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”
Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers
