"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

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"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Idea, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Inspirational

"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Idea, Humor, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days."

Stephen Dorff, American Actor

Idea, Trying, Visit

"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."

Dave Foley, Canadian Comedian

Idea, Dedication

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us."

Ed O'Brien, English Musician

Idea, Managers, Songs

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Idea, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Inspirational

"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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Idea, Power, Truth, Inspirational

"So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him."

Archie Shepp, American Musician

Idea, Chance, Partnership

"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect."

Quality

"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."

Technology

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."

Work

"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."

Trying

"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."

Learning

"I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper."

Music

"For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards."

First

"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."

Guitar

"A part of me has become immortal, out of my control."

Control

"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."

Music