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Peter Hammill

"The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres."

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"The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres."

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Asa Don Brown

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

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Asa Don Brown

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

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Asa Don Brown

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

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Asa Don Brown

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."

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Asa Don Brown

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

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Asa Don Brown

"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."

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Asa Don Brown

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

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Asa Don Brown

"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."

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Asa Don Brown

"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."

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Asa Don Brown

"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

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Peter Hammill
"Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them."

Trying

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Peter Hammill
"The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff."

Time

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Peter Hammill
"The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres."

Experience

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Peter Hammill
"Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs."

Time

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Peter Hammill
"I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives."

Science

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Peter Hammill
"It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were."

Time

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Peter Hammill
"I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity."

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Peter Hammill
"Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs."

Being

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Peter Hammill
"Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing."

Art

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