- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.
- Finite Number
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020