"I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can."

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Source : "Taylor Hanson of Tinted Windows". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. August 30, 2009.

Taylor Hanson

#Player Quotes #Hands Quotes #Percussion Quotes

“It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical beauty is of a rather different kind. I should say perhaps it is of a completely different kind and transcends these personal factors. It is the same in all countries and at all periods of time.”
“I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.”
“In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.”
“It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.”

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.”
“Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.”

Source : Michel Leiris, Richard Howard (1992). “Manhood: A Journey from Childhood Into the Fierce Order of Virility”, p.30, University of Chicago Press
“You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.”
“Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.”

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