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::THINKLINKS & QUOTES:: // www.skeandhu.net (::thinkstandard::'s label)CD purchase ::t:: on MySpace ::t::'s Oz music page Beware of Safety (Steve's Los Angeles based band) Favorite Quotes: "Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong." -Dandemis "Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." -Leonardo da Vinci "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." -Unknown "Prejudice is opinion without judgement." -Voltaire "Little things affect little minds." -Benjamin Disraeli "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." -Ernest Hemingway "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -Aldous Huxley "One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness." -Josh Billings "I've also stopped worrying if my changing taste in music costs me fans; life's too short to live in anyone's box, especially if that box is constraining your shine." -DJ Shadow "Play the truth and it will remain the truth for listeners to discover when they are ready." -Philip Toshio Sudo, author of Zen Guitar. "To say someone can play a score of Mozart's means no more than saying an actor can recite the lines of Shakespeare." -Philip Toshio Sudo "If you find contentment in the talent you've been given, you'll have no need for envy." -Philip Toshio Sudo "To be obsessed with destination is to remove the focus from where you are." -Philip Toshio Sudo mo�ral�i�ty - n. pl. mo�ral�i�ties • The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct. • A system of ideas of right and wrong conduct. • A rule or lesson in moral conduct. "I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best." -Townes Van Zandt Interviewer: The new songs are sung mostly in Icelandic. If you had to guess, what did you think J�nsi was singing about in these songs? Rymer: He is telling stories about stuff he loves and things that make him sad. I like that I don't know what the words are, it means I can make up my own stories. (From an interview of a Sigur R�s fan named Rymer, age 6, after the 8.11.05 show in Hollywood, CA.) "The best things in life aren't things." -unknown "Be kind." -P.K. "If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience." -John Cage "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason, and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, accept it and live up to it." -Buddha "Today is a good day." -Yunmen "The only wasted day is that in which we have not laughed." -unknown "Comparison is the thief of joy." -THE RAY Magazine "Always believe that tomorrow is the day." -Billy Wilder "I'm so independent I'm invisible." -sem "Always keep the river on your right." -Some guy I met in the airport was telling me a story about his experience in Vietnam. This was a saying they used every morning when the troops woke up and at night when they set up camp. "Prayer. The last refuge of a scoundrel." -unknown "I will not ruin your music by attaching to it the memory of an unfaithful girl." -sem "Be the change you want to see in the world." -Mahatma Ghandi "The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'" -Aaron Copland "Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own." -unknown "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates "Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address." -Lane Olinghouse "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." -Winston Churchill "Composers shouldn't think too much, it interferes with their plagiarism." -Howard Dietz "Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!' If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it." -Dan Barker "It's the most unhappy people who most fear change." -Mignon McLaughlin "All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." -Adlai Stevenson "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech "The kindness planned for tomorrow does not count for today." -unknown "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain "Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted." -unknown "An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." -Dan Rather "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt "Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to." -Alan Keightley "Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity." -Eric Hoffer "Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected." -Josh Billings "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."-Plato "It's the fragility of art, the way it almost breaks, it almost falls apart, but instead somehow pulls everything together to make you cry." -sem |
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