"I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Keith Fullerton Whitman

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“The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.”
“...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.”
“Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.”

Source : Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.272, Random House
“I would hate to be a bee. Be surrounded by bees all the time.”
“... You have me in your mouth, you don't get anybody else. Or you don't get me." - Jericho Barrons”
“You will never have to talk religion to anyone; men will see it talking in your life! You will radiate a positive influence at all times, which will in turn bring you happiness and health in good measure.”
“Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.”
“You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.”

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