Linkous Quotes & Sayings

And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the house have to go into the cornfield with the rickshaw boy to joke about whores and compare the length of their members and whisper furtively about dreams of being film directors (Hanif's dream, which horrifies his dream-invading mother, who believes the cinema to be an extension of the brothel business), where life has been transmuted into grotesquery by the irruption into it of history, eventually in the murkiness of the underworld he cannot help himself, he finds his eyes straying upwards, up along delicate sandals and baggy pajamas and past loose kurta and above the dupatta, the cloth of modesty, until eyes meet eyes, and then — Salman Rushdie

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything. — George Santayana

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99) — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass. — Richard Morris

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system. — Robert Metcalfe

I think maybe I'm trying to forget or not be so conscious about plastic circuitry and just go for the feeling. — Mark Linkous

A lot of the stuff I listen to is glitchy electronic stuff and stuff with beats. — Mark Linkous

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something. — Mark Linkous

I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown. — Mark Linkous

If we could combine Starbucks spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special. — Kengo Kuma

When people want me to sign records they usually always have Vivadixie[submarinetransmissions], and I think that's a lot of people's favorite record. And that was sort of when I was just learning what I was doing. — Mark Linkous

It takes me forever to write songs most of the time. — Mark Linkous

I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound. — Mark Linkous

Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation — Mark Linkous

Angels held conversations with humans in many places in the Bible - they bring or teach us things: (so what do demons bring or teach us??) — Glynda Linkous

It happened so long ago I can't even be sure it happened as I say it did. Stories change in the telling, memory makes up as much as it knows. We were very small. The things we saw were all mixed up with the things we dreamed and the things we were scared of. — David Almond