"When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song."

-- Martin Gore

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Guitar Quotes

“Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.”
“There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.”
“Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.”

Source : Up Front cartoon caption (1945)
“As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press
“Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.”
“Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.”

Source : "Théorie Analytique Des Probabilités". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, second edition, 1814.
“When mind and heart come together, mind serves consciousness instead of serving itself.”
“A good friend of my son's is a son to me.”

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