"It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads."

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Source : "20 Years On: Revisiting Pavement's Slanted And Enchanted" by Jim Keoghan, thequietus.com. April 27, 2012.

Mark E. Smith

#Fall Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Listening Quotes

“If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.”
“I'll always come for you. I'll always find you.”
“Anyone with two tunics should share with him who has none.”
“If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.”
“Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!”
“It's the Democrats whose position is that the only probÂlem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.”
“Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.”
“What millions died that Caesar might be great!”

Source : 'Pleasures of Hope' (1799) pt. 2, l. 174

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