"It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems."

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Source : "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.

David First

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Obviously like many of us, I love music, and I hate music sometimes.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.”

Source : Harvard Business Review, Peter Ferdinand Drucker, Clayton Christensen, Daniel Goleman (2014). “The HBRs 10 Must Reads Collection (12 Books) (HBRs 10 Must Reads)”, p.502, Harvard Business Review Press
“The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.”
“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”

Source : Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”
“If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting â€” and whether or not we leaders agree.”

Source : "New York World" Newspaper, May 10, 1926.
“A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.”
“As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump on the personal essay bus or linger back at the station, hoping that some other heretofore unknown mode of transportation was going to magically show up to take me where I wanted to go.”
“I love you. I'm not sure if it's the way you want me to. I think it might be. But I know that I love you. I absolutely love you.”

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