"My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Kieran Hebden

#Father Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Soul Quotes

“You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.”

Source : 1916 The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.
“The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.”
“I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become”
“Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad, disillusioned, or gratified? I have been trying the single, vertically shot portrait with my 8 x 10 since 1985 and never felt I succeeded in finding what I was looking for.”
“[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.”
“There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.”
“It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.”
“I listen a lot to my own music when I'm in the process of making it. In the car, in the kitchen while making food, on my iPod when I go shopping, etc. I listen to it as much as possible, and if I get tired of listening to it, it's not good enough, and I leave it unreleased.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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