"When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Allen Toussaint

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.”
“It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.”
“According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.”
“Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose (1962). “Crossroads: Being the Works of Subhas Chandra Bose, 1938-1940”
“Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.”

Source : Layne Redmond (1997). “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”
“If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.”
“All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.
“When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.”

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