“It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set [for the Last Summer tour], and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.” WantYearsMadeTwoPlayTogetherLastsSongSoundDifferencesHalfMillionsKnowingEnvironmentMaterialsHugeNeededSummerMusicianAlbumsStudiosTwo YearsControlledSatisfyingFieryFurnacesNew SongsLast Summer Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.” PeopleNeedsMadeTodaySongPracticeEnvironmentFashionHugeWideVolumeFestivalsSurrealBasementsFashion Today Author:David Pajo
“In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also deal with the economy. There is a direct link between how we deal with the economy and how we deal with nature.” IfsMadeBookDealsEconomyClearEnvironmentDirectMade ItRadicalReformLinksEcology Author:Tariq Ramadan
“You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.” WayHas BeensMadeDoneWholeUsedGrowthRealizingEnvironmentGlobal WarmingExplorationAlsMillionaireGoreFiascoHocus Pocus Author:Rafael Cruz
“I really struggled moving from New Zealand to the United States. I still have very strong ties to my home, and it took me a couple of years to feel settled in Los Angeles. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends and found the places where I enjoy spending my time. Finding beaches to get to made me feel much more plugged into the environment here.” FeelsYearsMadeStillsStatesHomeMovingFoundStrongEnjoyUnitedUnited StatesEnvironmentGroupsCoupleFindingsSpendingBeachTiesMy TimeLos AngelesVery StrongNew ZealandGroup Of Friends Author:Rose McIver
“We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the animals (which is what made me vegetarian) but also the incredible harm to the environment, the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas created by the whole vast machinery of intensive animal farming.” PeopleMadeWholeHelpingSufferingAnimalEnvironmentAmountIncrediblesHarmGasVegetarianMachineryFarmingGreenhousesGreenhouse Gases Author:Jane Goodall
“The great news is that overwhelmingly far more than adults, youth already care about the environment. Young people are recognizing that we have largely made a mess of things with respect to the environment [and] that the burden to fix it will fall on them.” PeopleMadeCareYoungFallEnvironmentYouthNewsAdultsBurdenMessRecognizingGreat News Author:Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
“I learned that a healthy society is made up of loving, trusting individuals, and that these individuals in turn protect their environment, become stewards of our land, air and water, and they make peace, rather than war.” MadeWarTurnsIndividualWaterEnvironmentAirLandHealthyProtectMaking PeaceStewardsAir And WaterHealthy Society Author:Robin Lim
“Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.” PeopleLooksMadeWalksEnvironmentNiceStreetsCautious Author:Simon Helberg
“If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be harmed by this are your grandchildren and they don't have any votes in the market. Their interests are worth zero. Anybody that pays attention to their grandchildren's interests is being irrational. Because what you're supposed to do is maximize your own interests, measured by wealth, right now. Nothing else matters. So destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies, but within a framework of institutional lunacy.” PeopleIfsMadeMatterReasonInterestWealthSpacePayAttentionEnvironmentPolicyRight NowVoteDollarsRationalPay AttentionZeroDestroyingIrrationalGrandchildrenFrameworkOuter SpaceLunacyDestroying The Environment Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you can look back and say, "The economy's better. Our security's better. The environment's better. Our kids' education is better," if you can say that you've made things better, then considering all the challenges out there, you should feel good. But I'm the first to acknowledge that I did not crack the code in terms of reducing this partisan fever.” IfsFeelsShouldFirstsLooksMadeKidsTermChallengesEconomyEnvironmentSecurityFeel GoodCodeAcknowledgeCracksConsideringReducingFeverPartisans Author:Barack Obama
“There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?” ThinkingWorldTryingMadeCountryStatesTodayLosesUnitedUnited StatesCreativeEnvironmentMajorsIntellectualMathematicsMedicineAstronomyRegionsTransitionValleysEngineeringAgricultureCompassInnovativeFertileComplacentSiliconBaghdadSilicon ValleyIntellectual Capital Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I believe that women are rising to the occasion to tackle many challenges. Whether it's issues that relate to prosperity, the defense of country, the economy of our country; issues that have traditionally been considered women's issues like health and education and the environment are now being defined in terms of our national strength. So I think women have made a big difference in putting things in perspective.” ThinkingBelieveMadeCountryBigsI BelieveTermChallengesDifferencesEconomyIssuesEnvironmentPerspectiveProsperityDefenseOur CountryDefinedOccasionsRelateRisingHealth And Education Author:Nancy Pelosi