"The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on."

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Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

Paul Westerberg

#Song Quotes #Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.”
“There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.”
“I would just be vibing with whatever I liked the most. And then there were a couple songs that I started on my own. I would have a melody or an idea and I would take it to the studio to go through it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.”
“Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.”
“In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.”
“Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.”
“Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.”

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