“I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.” IfsThinkingKnowsRecordsMusician Author:Stephen Malkmus
“Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantSaidRecordsPressesUpsetFeedback Author:Stephen Malkmus
“It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.” KindEasyLaughingMediaPersonality Author:Stephen Malkmus
“One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.” PeopleProblemPastCivilizationContemporaryInterruptionsTransmission Author:Eugene Green
“When you see people on the street, they're living in their phones. They aren't living where they are - they haven't got the energy of the past. And so it's something that needs to be reestablished.” PeopleNeedsPastEnergyStreetsHavensPhones Author:Eugene Green
“Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive wisdom, and they can give that back to older people who have lost it to their maturation.” PeopleGivingYoungCertainLostMaturityMatureIntuitiveTransmitOlder People Author:Eugene Green
“It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something we can never get away from, even in a civilization where we're controlled by robots. It's the basic relationship between mature people who represent paternal and maternal figures and young people. It's universal - it's part of human existence. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way if humans remain around.” PeopleIfsWayHumansChildrenYoungParentExistenceFiguresCivilizationUniversalBasesRelationGet AwayMatureControlledRobotsHuman ExistenceChildren And Parents Author:Eugene Green
“The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingKindBookDifferentProblemTodayChristianCultureCommonKnow HowInformationFieldsElementsChosenSupposed To BeDifferent KindsSymbolicBack WhenCathedralsSpecialistsSelectiveEncyclopediaCommon CultureSymbolic Meaning Author:Eugene Green
“I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.” IfsThinkingHumansSpiritualRelationHuman RelationsElevationSacredness Author:Eugene Green
“Spiritual truth is something that is so far from us - without any form or name that we can imagine - that we need the things that religions gave us simply as images and metaphors. But they can be found in a variety of ways. It's not a question of religious practice.” WayNeedsSpiritualFormFoundNamesReligiousPracticeImagineTruth IsMetaphorVarietyImagine ThatSpiritual TruthReligious Practices Author:Eugene Green