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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have my more concept-y albums, and then I have the ones that are more about just collections of songs. For me, the first Dirty Projectors record that I put out was like that: 'The Glad Fact.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That's why I write them.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I really like about West African guitar playing is the way it makes harmony linear. They're really spelling things out and turning chords into melodies instead of just letting them be these hanging blocks of color.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It's like an Andy Warhol dream or something. He's able to marshal all of these different artforms and media into his story, in this very layered, idiosyncratic way.
- Coltrane
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I really admire, like William Blake and John Coltrane and Richard Wagner, had these ridiculously full universes that took their entire lives to describe.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I first saw 'Guided by Voices'; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility.
- Coke
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't into chimpanzees or gorillas because I kinda felt like they were the Coke and Pepsi of the primate world.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dirty Projectors has always been a band that's been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore and trying to take them to the center of the culture or something like that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020