“I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.” Quote by Win Butler
“I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.” ThinkingWantCareersEasierSabotage Author:Win Butler
“Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I'm saying at every single moment.” PeopleKnowsMomentsSingle MomDestroyers Author:Dan Bejar
“It never really interested me in the past but, for the first time, I wanted to make a pop record. I thought a good way of doing it would be to make songs that didn't really make sense to me as songs; songs that I couldn't just sit down and play in front of someone and then get them to play over it.” WayFirstsPlayWould BeWantedPastSongRecordsFrontsFirst TimeDown AndPopsMake SenseOver ItGood Way Author:Dan Bejar
“I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.” RealPlayWantedStuffCasesListeningInstrumentsJazzAmbientAmbient Music Author:Dan Bejar
“I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.” ThinkingKnowsKindUseSoundRocksQuietStormFormatSuckerInstrumentation Author:Dan Bejar
“I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where writing about a fire (and about the attempt to understand the event), also becomes an attempt to understand how writing might get closer to the fire, in so many ways.” WayWritingBookHelpingMightFireEventsRelationFinalsHelp MeSectionsGorgeousIntroductionFurious Author:Laura Mullen
“Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.” MatterMotherBornNovelTenDiscoveryDiedDestructiveMaryAnticipateParablesMother DiedShelleyDestructive Power Author:Laura Mullen
“In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of death into life, as the monster takes his revenge on the father who gave him life but withheld recognition.” FirstsFatherCreationRevengeMonstersRecognitionAnimationTransfers Author:Laura Mullen
“Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If you add UC Berkeley + 1984 the other side of the = is "new historian" meaning that I studied with and was influenced by those who were interested in how the personal shaped the political (and literary), how science and literature might interact, and what the body got to do with it.” IfsWellsBodyMightPoliticalCertainLiteratureSidesDegreesResearchAddHistorianBerkeleyUc Berkeley Author:Laura Mullen
“If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.” IfsWantIdeasStoriesShapesCanon Author:Laura Mullen