Arto Quotes & Sayings

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it. — Arto Lindsay

When you don't have love, it is like there's a party going on and everybody was invited except for you ... and you just happen to walk by that house in the rain — Dane Cook

Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human. — Arto Paasilinna

And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil. — Arto Lindsay

There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here. — Arto Lindsay

I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn't have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen. — Arto Lindsay

I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot. — Arto Lindsay

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one. — Arto Lindsay

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place. — Arto Lindsay

I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why. — Ellen Hopkins

Wait patiently for what you want. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country. — Arto Lindsay

It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas. — Arto Lindsay

Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel. — Ardel Wray

In regard to methodology, science has tended to say, "What is very difficult to study doesn't merit study." And in regard to natural law, science tends to say, "What is very difficult to understand doesn't exist." The church has been a bit more broad-minded. To the religious establishment what cannot be understood in terms of known natural law is a miracle, and miracles do exist. — M. Scott Peck

I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close. — Arto Lindsay

Talk to Arto Lindsay and I'm sure he's tired of people asking him about DNA; he's probably really into what he's doing now, which is good stuff. I guess I probably feel like that. But I'm obviously not comparing myself to someone as iconic as that. — Bradford Cox

Let's make out like two bi-linguals. — Arto Lindsay

We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer. — Arto Lindsay

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them. — Arto Lindsay

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. — Arto Lindsay

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play. — Arto Lindsay

It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all. — Arto Lindsay

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. — Arto Lindsay

One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs. — E. M. Forster

Science can't tell you why anything happens. — Michael Crichton

You've got to know how to howl to give yourself an escape route. — Arto Paasilinna

It is hard to teach an old dog to sit, as well as it is difficult to teach an old Laplandian rafter to swim. — Arto Paasilinna

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music. — Arto Lindsay

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen. — India Knight

To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people. — Arto Lindsay

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. — Camille Paglia

The pronunciation of both Sami and Portuguese languages is strikingly similar: the Portuguese evolved from folksy Latin while the Sami evolved from reindeers' howling. — Arto Paasilinna

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing. — Arto Lindsay

I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc. — Michael Ian Black

Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men. — John Steinbeck

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. — Arto Lindsay

It was clear, however, that the woman had in herself some secret source of joy, that she was now an aggressive, positive force, sure of herself, and apparently afraid of nothing in heaven or hell. — Algernon Blackwood

I am in prayer for his kids and the family. — Diana Ross

Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation. — David Deida

Sometimes life is truly woeful. — Arto Paasilinna

Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them. — Arto Lindsay