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“The lyrics are usually the last take. So after like five times, saying it over and over again, your voice starts to relax and you get into the groove of the record. Personally I don't raise my voice; my voice is usually lower, more casual.”
“The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.”
“The lyrics gather in my soul, as the blooms burst in air, and what flows from my lips is a symphony long held inside.”
“The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic ideal that I'm aspiring for. I don't know. The lyrics are always about unsuccessful relationships. They're not all about the love between a man and a woman. It's about friendship and family. Deep down there's a lot of talk about general existence.”
“The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my mouth while I'm writing the chords, and that seems to work better than filling up notebooks of what I think is really cool poetry, and try to put it on a song. That usually sounds like it's taped on.”
“The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.”
“The lyrics that I sing in my head dictate the attitude of my heart. And because that’s the case, I’d prefer the music of God to the songs of men.”
“The lyrics, though, are pretty symbolic, " I venture.
"From time immemorial, symbolism and poetry have been inseparable. Like a pirate and his rum. "
"Do you think Miss Saeki knew what all the lyrics mean?"
Oshima looks up, listening to the thunder as if calculating how far away it is. He turns to me and shakes his head. "Not necessarily. Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypass ing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly's wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose."
"So you're saying Miss Saeki maybe found those words in some other space-like in dreams?"
"Most great poetry is like that. If the words can't create a prophetic tunnel connecting them to the reader, then the whole thing no longer func tions as a poem."
"But plenty of poems only pretend to do that."
"Right. It's a kind of trick, and as long as you know that it isn't hard. As long as you use some symbolic-sounding words, the whole thing looks like a poem of sorts."
"In 'Kafka on the Shore' I feel something urgent and serious."
"Me too, " Oshima says.”
“The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally going through a sort of mid-twenties stock-taking.”
“The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.”
“The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.”
“The M-Freedom has its own built-in Wi-Fi. This allows users without Wi-Fi, to plug in the speaker and connect to the signal from the M-Freedom and stream wirelessly.”
“The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.”
“The Mac defined personal technology, and the iPhone defines intimate technology as a convergence of communications, content and location.”
“The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.”
“The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.”
Source: The Sorcerer in the North (Ranger's Apprentice Book 5)
“The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.”
“The MacGuffin in that [Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky story] was [Bill] Clinton staying in office. That's what he wanted, and the media was hell-bent that he was gonna get what he wanted.”
“The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.”
“The Machiavellian dreamer understands that the pursuit of power is akin to a game of chess, and it is through the mastery of strategy that one can achieve victory.”
Source: Machiavellian Dreams: A Manual
“The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.”
Source: Seven Types of Ambiguity
“The machinations of fate are often beyond human ken, and perhaps greater forces were at work here, throwing us into one another's path in the unlikeliest of circumstances.”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“The machine can paint what things look like. I'm going to paint why looking matters.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.”
Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
“The machine conceals the machinations.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“The machine could understand a man who would kill, but it couldn't understand one who wouldn't. Each part of the machine-the U.S. Attorney, the judge-were nice enough in themselves. They were courteous and likable. But the human parts put together made a big vicious mechanical machine that seemed to possess, instead of feeling, only a brute force.”
Source: A Field of Broken Stones: The Prison Memoirs of a World War Two Conscientious Objector
“The machine demanded access codes. As he entered the first, a faint whispering sound startled him, causing him to snatch up the sweep laser. All was silent again. It had sounded like metal on metal. Could he have imagined it? He listened intently.”
Source: Demonspawn
“The machine didn't replace human connection … it created reasons for more of it.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.”
Source: An Essay on the Restoration of Property
“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
“The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole, strictly speaking, it restricts the possibilities for young players.”
“The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.”
Source: Make straight the way of the Lord: an anthology of the philosophical writings of Lanza del Vasto
“The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier
“The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.”
Source: Alms for Oblivion
“The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.”
Source: Homo Faber
“The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.”
“The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.”
“The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.”
“The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.”
Source: The Greening of America
“The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be fast, they will be used in sport, but they are not to be thought of as commercial carriers.”
“The machine, mon ami, wears or. One cannot, alas, install the new engine and continue to run as before like a motor car.”
Source: Curtain
“The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?”
“The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.”
Source: The Theory of Business Enterprise
“The Machine that found God—
but God is a prisoner, and reality the cage.
This is no story. It’s a confession.
⛔ Reading is recursion. You may be tracked.”
“The machine that was Rachel Hatch had a glitch. And that glitch was Dalton Savage.”
Source: Smoke Signal
“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“The machine was so intricate, so complicated, that he almost got dizzy looking at it. Even in its sad state of disrepair, it was beautiful.”
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.”
“The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.”
Source: The People, Yes
“The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.”
Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition