"As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong."

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Source : "The Black Keys on new album, rabid fans and Lana Del Rey". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2014.

Patrick Carney

#Mixing Quotes #Ethical Quotes #Code Quotes

“I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.”
“Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."”
“I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.”
“I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college - in your dorm, traveling - in a hotel room, camping - rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat. Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time.”
“At about the age of seven â€¦ I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didnâ€™t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.”
“This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneurâ€”who is not afraid and is resourceful, motivated and fast movingâ€”all give us an advantage.”
“The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.”
“If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.”

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