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Quotes by English Authors
"When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle."
"So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking."
"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."
"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
"If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys."
"Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink."
"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is."
"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."
"I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15."
"We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them."
"The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels."
"I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same."
"Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse."
"I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist."
"I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me."
"The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done."
"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."
"It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation."
"My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient."
"In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
"Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
"God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate."
"It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism."
"It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point."
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