"A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all."

-- Steve McConnell

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“I dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.”
“What I really value in Angela Merkel is that she has never tried to tap the brakes on my Ã©lan, my enthusiasm. She tells me: I'm not going to play the role of the person who has already experienced and seen everything.”
“We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.”

Source : Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.
“I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”
“Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my pulse to 120. Tying my feet into the stretchers increased it to 180. My maximum pulse was 200. I didn't need a warmup. I needed a sedative.”
“Imagination encircles the world.”
“Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.”

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