"I was really a big fan of Loveless. At [the time it came out], I made music that was not too far away from [what they were doing], but we were stuck in Austria. There was no way to get attention from the outside world. Maybe it's a generational thing."

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Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

Christian Fennesz

#Fans Quotes #Attention Quotes #Austria Quotes

“It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.”
“I do think, even though I've made these genre movies, there's what happens in the movie and then there's what the movie's about. And for me, what the movie's about is so much more interesting.”
“The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.”
“Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.”
“This is not a problem. Iâ€™m making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then Iâ€™m going to shoot. One good result and Iâ€™m coming back. This is a distraction, itâ€™s the calm before the storm,”
“When one sleeps on the floor one need not worry about falling out of bed.”
“What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?”

Source : Yiyun Li (2009). “The Vagrants: A Novel”, p.314, Random House
“The U.S. military today garrisons the planet in a fashion without historical precedent. Successive administrations, regardless of party, justify and perpetuate this policy by insisting that positioning U.S. forces in distant lands fosters peace, stability, and security. In the present century, however, perpetuating this practice has visibly had the opposite effect. In the eyes of many of those called upon to "host" American bases, the permanent presence of such forces smacks of occupation. They resist. Why should U.S. policymakers expect otherwise?”

Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

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