"I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Glenn Branca

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“Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.”
“If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 30, 2010
“True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.”
“The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.”
“The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.70, Harvard University Press
“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”
“My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.”
“When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?”

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