"Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some kind of mood, and put some kind of idea in somebody's head. If Marshall McLuhan or Harold Innis were looking at it, they would tell you that the genre of rock music isn't the best way to deliver a political message because it distorts it, it makes it into entertainment. Perhaps the best political message is just to speak it to somebody. I think that's something I'm always writing about in songs, just how to mediate, how to present something."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

A.C. Newman

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.”
“Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
“Jazz never ends... it just continues.”
“An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.”
“Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball.”
“I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.”
“It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.”

Source : Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
“There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.”

Source : Max Eastman (1948). “Enjoyment of living”

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