"It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?"."

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Source : "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

Paul Banks

#Taken Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Misunderstood Quotes

“When George W. Bush decided to save the American position in Iraq by going against the advice of all of his wise men, of Jim Baker and the whole Iraq Study Group, and 90% of his administration, that was George W. Bush's decision. So we have to bear in mind that this isn't an administration we're electing. It's a person that we are electing.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“There is no substitute for an ecstatic consumer.”
“Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.”

Source : "Rarely-Before-Seen Marilyn Monroe Photos Show Sex Symbol Just Before She Died" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, www.foxnews.com. May 30, 2007.
“For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.”
“The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.”
“Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the script is incredible, and the actors are great, and everything is working out brilliantly." And then you see it, and you kind of go, "Oh god, it's not as good as I thought it was," and it doesn't get an audience to watch it. It only does a couple of festivals and then dies and whatever.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?”
“All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.”

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