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"It's easy to get depressed and think, ""Well, what's the point?"" But it's the same as, ""Well, we're all going to die, so what's the point in brushing my teeth or even saying hello to anyone or obeying traffic lights."" You can do that, but that's certainly not going to take you anywhere."
Viggo Mortensen
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Bernie Sanders has inspired millions of people in this country.
Viggo Mortensen
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The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.
Viggo Mortensen
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"As Martin Luther King said, ""Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."""
Viggo Mortensen
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With electronic music it's often a little more hidden - the relationship between gesture and sound - which makes it confounding for audiences. But the ingredients of electronic music are the same ingredients of nonelectronic music.
Vijay Iyer
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What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.
Vijay Iyer
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I think what music can offer is the feeling of forward motion, also the feeling of accumulation of information, of sensations, of feelings, like we're going somewhere. When I say 'feel like,' I don't mean to suggest that it's not real, but that it's the work of the imagination, which is what narrative is.
Vijay Iyer
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Electronic technology has been a part of music making and music listening for a century. We always treat it like it's new, and cutting edge, but it's actually omnipresent, so we should just treat it as part of the arsenal today.
Vijay Iyer
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Some men are born posthumously.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.
Vijay Iyer
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If you look at my collaborations, it is very much in line with all these others in the sense that it is a building of community, particularly among artists of color. This is what I learned from the example of elder African-American artists, which is where it is all coming from to refuse to be silenced.
Vijay Iyer
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It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.
Vijay Iyer
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"My music is always called ""cerebral."" It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy."
Vijay Iyer
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To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act.
Vijay Iyer
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The whole basis of working in black and white and grays became the basis of my understanding of color, because it's all about tone, it's all about light and dark. If you don't get that, then your color work is going to be a mess. So that's the beginning of the toolkit: drawing and black and white media.
David Small
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The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.
Stephen Tobolowsky
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When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.
Darren Criss
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I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
Anthony Hopkins
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I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.
Dave Matthews
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
Fiona Apple
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I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way
Judy Collins
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I want to see my friends who I have not seen about a year since I've started to do the whole recording thing. I love to sit down with them and have a coffee. I also want to go see movies.
Angela Aki
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Different cultures have different audiences.
Angel Olsen
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People are buying more vinyl now than they did in the late '90s or 2000s. I like having different mediums of the record. It's always interesting to see how the tapes end up looking because they are so tiny.
Angel Olsen
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