"I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India."

-- Terry Riley

#Air Quotes #Careers Quotes #Rainbow Quotes

“I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.”
“There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.”

Source : Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.167, Macmillan
“I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.”
“Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism.”
“Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.”
“All I know is that I have two choices â€“ stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.”
“The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.”
“I don't have a role model, but I certainly have always enjoyed Neil Young. I had the great pleasure and opportunity to watch him from the side of the stage on a couple of occasions, and his on-stage sound is incredible.”

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