#quotesjosephlikes

[byorke]

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Susan Sontag

[byorke]

If man say him a ting, then him a ting.

Jerwayne

[byorke]

The law should not imitate nature. It should improve nature. People invented the law to govern their relationships. The law determined who we are and how we live. We either observe it or we break it. People are free. Their freedom is governed only by the freedom of others. Punishment means revenge. In particular when it aims to harm but does not prevent crime. For whom does the law avenge?

Kieslowski, Piesiewicz: A Short Film About Killing

[byorke]

I just like that the fact that there might be a potential story there. We used to work with punk and therefore hated anything that was meaningful. But we quite like meaning actually. In ‘Puzzle’, there is clearly a story but you've no idea what it is. In ‘Only Revolutions’ there is a story there to me but I don’t know if it’s that obvious to anyone else. I think it’s the same way a lot of musicians feel about their songs, it’s all about open-ended interpretation. You make the song and you put all your feelings and thoughts into it and if someone in Worcester or Nuneaton, for example, thinks it’s about something else, that’s fine. The listener or viewer can come to their own conclusion.

Storm Thorgerson

[byorke]

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mull

[byorke]

Be pitiful, every man is fighting a hard battle.

Ian MacLaren

[byorke]

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Tom Peters

[byorke]

There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most sombre, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.

Beck