"I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era."

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Source : "Arjen Lucassen: Human Or Intergalatic Space Crusader?". Interview with Igor Italiani, progressiveworld.net. April 2002.

Arjen Anthony Lucassen

#Thinking Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Eras Quotes

“Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.”
“I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be. I have no idea. That's my existentialism. I am a student of uncertainty, I have no idea where the stock market is going to be. So when I am creating trades in my portfolio for my clients, I am agnostic. I just want to enhance the probability that I make money come what may.”
“I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.”
“I think I have pretty good taste in the projects I choose to take on. It's a blessing and a curse - I certainly could have worked a lot more if I wasn't as selective, but I just can't bring myself to spend two years of my life slaving away on some project I'm not really enthused about.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.”
“What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.”
“You need good energy and you need to be fit because it's very tiring. A lot of the work is quite heavy and quite smelly. That's why girls drift out of the kitchen because they get fed up smelling like fish and vegetables and things like that.”
“All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.”

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