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"Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing."
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."
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"This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams."
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"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."
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"The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere."
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"The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else."
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"There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing."
Music
"Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way."
Time
"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."
Musicians
"If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient."
Music
"There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there."
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"There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies."
Work
"I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could."
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"It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there."
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"The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views."
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