"There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things"

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Source : "Progress Report: Arctic Monkeys". Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.stereogum.com. May 31, 2011.

Alex Turner

#Years Quotes #Perception Quotes #Band Quotes

“He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.32
“All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.”
“Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. Itâ€™s a pointless exercise that can never be anything but acrimonious and will only highlight unnecessary amounts of difference about things that ultimately donâ€™t really matter. Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure and donâ€™t worry about the numbers.”
“I know my father can make a difference.”
“The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.”
“Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.”
“Hereâ€™s a bumper sticker Iâ€™d like to see: â€œWe are the proud parents of a child whoâ€™s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesnâ€™t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.”
“Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.”

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