Hecker Quotes & Sayings

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. — Joni Mitchell

If eye fucking were a sport, I would win the gold. — Felicia Fox

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side. — Tim Hecker

I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house. — Tim Hecker

India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world, — Siegfried Hecker

I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat. — Suzanne Collins

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God. — Benjamin Whichcote

Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music. — Tim Hecker

Also in America, the Redemptorist priest and founder of the Paulist order, Fr. Isaac Hecker, was a great admirer of St. Catherine, seeing in her the perfect foil to those who claimed that Catholicism promotes a mechanical piety or fosters a sanctity unconcerned with the real needs of suffering humanity in society. To the latter charge he replied forcefully:
"Read the life of St. Catherine, and in imagination fancy her in the city hospital of Genoa, charged not only with the supervision and responsibility of its finances, but also overseeing the care of its sick inmates, taking an active, personal part in its duties as one of its nurses, and conducting the whole establishment with strict economy, perfect order, and the tenderest care and love! — Catherine Of Siena

Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply. — Isaac Hecker

People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music. — Isaac Hecker

Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that because it's kind of distracting from what the point should be. At least for me, it's to have the primacy of aurality in the experience of that evening. — Tim Hecker

In 1338 Kingsai was visited by an earthquake of ten days' duration; — Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker

There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to listen to every MySpace page, so what's the difference? It's just noise that you filter out. — Tim Hecker

I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe. — Brian Blessed

Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker? was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares were unnerving. I told myself that they were not stupid - for how could the final attainment of thousands of years of human progress be stupid? — Tod Wodicka

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician. — Tim Hecker

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination. — Tim Hecker

A wise man never asks what another man serves, for only his actions will speak the truth. — Seneca.

Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun to almost desecrate an instrument that for 500 years has been associated with God. — Tim Hecker

There are batons that you will obviously choose to pass on, upon your death, but there are others that would be advisable you pass on whilst you are still alive. Implement as practicable as possible, all succession elements that can be done whilst you are still alive so that you can ensure they are done according to your will/desire. — Archibald Marwizi

I love vinyl, but I'm not a 'vinyl person'. I still collect, but most of my stuff is digital. — Tim Hecker

My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional nationalist ideas. — Tim Hecker

It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by way of the Chimney. (What did it mean? Soon we were all to learn what it meant.) — Primo Levi

Because I refuse to perform my music in a traditional sense of instrumentation, I don't have an amazing live stage spectacle to provide, and I don't want to go there. I don't see how the music would stay true to the spirit of the work. — Tim Hecker

Hey," Jesse said. "You guys get any sleep?"
Roux just held up her massive coffee cup. "Does this answer your question? — Robin Benway

This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries. — Isaac Hecker

One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates the spread or difference between long-term interest rates and short-term ones. — Kenneth Fisher

I'm not going to go to the local theater to spend $12 ... when I can get a screening copy of a film. I don't get screeners myself, but I can borrow from my friends or go to their house to watch. — Andre Leon Talley

Most religious scriptures are all about three apparently glorifying elements, -man, man and man. — Abhijit Naskar

Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered. — Isaac Hecker

The part of Cardenia's brain in charge of gestalting slammed everything together and shoved it into her consciousness. — John Scalzi

I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of flattery and a little bit of horror. It's a mixture. It's like sublime shock and awe, but also terror. That's always the way I feel about how music flows through those types of networks. I'm mostly cool with it, but I definitely appreciate when people support the work. — Tim Hecker