"I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in a strange new place where all is bleak and all is lost. And it is this sense of isolation that permeates the whole album. I wanted to go into the balance between fear and transcendence."

-- Colin Stetson

#Talking Quotes #Balance Quotes #Albums Quotes

“If someone says there's a portal to hell under some rocks, you bet your ***** I'm going to move them.”
“The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.”

Source : "Lady Slings the Booze". Book by Spider Robinson, 1992.
“Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports ***** is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.”
“Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to a post information era where the network is rapidly disrupting the hierarchy and transforming the way we work and live,”
“With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not possibly reside in the form of this angel. Or could it? Sure, I'm politically incorrect. I admit it; I confess; guilty as charged. I am, Your Honor, the lowest of the species, still wet from the swamp, webbed feet fossilized in the mud. I am a Man!”
“Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think itâ€™s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.13, Pan Macmillan
“The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.”

Source : "Our creative minds need to be harnessed" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2008.
“I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.”

Source : "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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