Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Alasdair MacLean

Quote by Alasdair MacLean

“I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really like any actual bands from old times. We take elements of past music styles and past sounds as a way to... this is going to sound very pretentious and perhaps overly thought-out, but as a way to strike chords of vague nostalgia, and strike chords of, "I've heard this before somewhere." That's what a lot of our music is about in terms of the words and ideas behind it, so we really use old sounds as a way to serve that agenda.”

Quote by Alasdair MacLean

Create image

Author

Alasdair MacLean
Alasdair MacLean

Alasdair MacLean, born on June 2, 1974, is an individual whose identity and profession remain unclear. His life experience and contributions are limited by available information. more

You May Also Like

“There questions of wanting to be an artist, and what does that mean, what makes you an artist? Are you an artist if you're in a gallery in New York and not an artist if you're doing it at home? Do you need legitimation to count? If you've been acculturated to believe that you have certain obligations - familial, social, human - if multitasking has been your forte and that's what's been praised and rewarded, where do you find the single-mindedness, the selfishness to do something like art? I think those are questions that arise differently for women and for men.”

ThinkingMenBelieveMeanArtHomeArtistObligationSelfishness
Author:Claire Messud
Create image

“I spoke to my father - my father's from Pakistan and he's also a lawyer - I said to him, "Well what does the Shari'a say?" And he said, "Well, of course it doesn't justify suicide bombs," but he didn't seem to know where the Shari'a came from or what it was all about. The more I asked people in my family as well as friends, the more I realized that there seemed to be widespread ignorance in the Muslim community. And that's something which I actually found to be the case over the next two and a half, three years I spent writing the book.”

PeopleWritingBookFatherCommunityIgnoranceMy FamilySuicideLawyerI RealizedJustify
Author:Sadakat Kadri
Create image

“I realized that the ignorance was profound. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, it's just that people didn't know what the Shari'a was, as such. They knew that it was something good. I should say perhaps that the Shari'a, etymologically in Arabic, means a desert path to water. It means a path towards salvation, in the seventh-century context, to the desert people. If you have a path to water, that's the path you want to take to get you where you want to get to; where you should get to. And that much was clear but beyond that people didn't know what the rules were.”

PeopleMeanWaterPathIgnoranceSalvationProfoundI Realized
Author:Sadakat Kadri
Create image