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Alasdair MacLean

"We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that we can make another one. That's really my position on it. If we were to do a film soundtrack or something else where I could take the rest of the band with me. I really don't think bands should make more than five records anyway. In fact, five is one too many. We'll have to see how it pans out."

Source : "The Clientele's Alasdair MacLean draws inspiration from hangovers and accidental acid trips". Interview with Maggie Serota, music.avclub.com. February 21, 2010.

Alasdair MacLean

#Thinking Quotes #Psychedelic Quotes #Film Quotes

“It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it does to engage in cosmology while you're thinking the universe is still geocentric.”
“The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that we can skip the experiments and figure things out from our armchairs. What they have in common, however, is regarding our concepts as the targets of philosophical theorising, and I just don't think that, in the vast majority of cases, the subject matter of philosophy has our concepts as its target.”
“One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor”
“That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.”
“I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.”
“A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.119, Shambhala Publications
“I was always fast riding bikes with my brother who got me on a bike. There was little to do so I ended up riding everywhere. It was both my transportation, entertainment, and a good way perhaps to make a living I hope.”

Source : Source: pedalmag.com
“It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.”

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