"This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band."

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Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

Christopher Owens

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Band Quotes

“In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing to do with art. So I'm making it clear that this is an artistic choice. It's not everyone's artistic choice. Some people should choose only to make object form because that's what gives them pleasure. But there are people for whom aesthetic pleasure comes from doing something else, and why would you deny that choice? It's another autonomous choice.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.”
“I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”
“Friends are people who are in your life because you feel good around them and you like them. Friends are the people you choose to be with.”
“My only crash - I'm a safe driver, though I have scraped a couple of cars parking them - but my only real big crash was on the M11. It was a section with no street lamps, and it was really late at night so it was really dark. I was driving along in the middle lane doing 70mph, not going fast, and then suddenly in the lane in front of me there was this Ford Ka on its roof. I had no chance. I managed to avoid hitting it, but I span the car and hit the barriers. It was a write-off, but fortunately the person who'd been in the Ka was OK and I was fine, which is what matters.”
“Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.”
“To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.”

Source : Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.6, Harper Collins

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