Sitek Quotes & Sayings

The only way to love a person is ... by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish. — Brenda Ueland

I'm a real genre jumper, but all good music belongs to the same family. I love Dave Sitek, a producer I've been working with a lot since I moved to L.A. He will change the game. — Erik Hassle

I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house. — Dave Sitek

Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains. — Dave Sitek

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror! — Dave Sitek

Somewhere along the line, music became 'content' ... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song. — Dave Sitek

I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months. — Babatunde Adebimpe

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid. — Dave Sitek

Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order. — Dave Sitek

I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people. — Dave Sitek

Words are the most beautiful things existed in the world, but they die as fast as they were born, unless you convert them to act!
The Secret Life of Bees — Sue Monk Kidd

History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals. — Robert Coover

Get to Know Yourself Once you start getting acquainted with yourselves, finding out who you are and where you belong and who your relatives are, spiritually speaking as well as in the earthly frame of reference, you come to the astounding, overwhelming realization that you are a child of God-that you belong to Him, that He is your Father. He is our Father. — Boyd K. Packer

I'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don't care about gear in general. I care about people and their intentions to make music - it doesn't matter what equipment you have. — Dave Sitek

If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place. — Dave Sitek

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy. — David Hackworth

What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible. — Michael Sheen

I'm a behind-the-scenes guy. I've got a face for radio. — Dave Sitek

A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements. — Wendy Wasserstein

I think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years. — Dave Sitek

Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach ... love is close by ... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation ... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher! — Dave Sitek

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals. — Bernard DeVoto

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! — May Sarton

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. — Nicolas Chamfort

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar. — Dave Sitek

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. — Margot Lee Shetterly

I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone! — Dave Sitek

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go. — Dave Sitek

Anything above 40 is a little too old for me. I just look for a girl who is funny and has nice eyes and a smile. — Justin Bieber

I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts. — Dave Sitek

Ethics as formation, then, is the venture of speaking about the form of Christ taking form in our world neither abstractly nor casuistically, neither programmatically nor purely reflectively. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside. — Dave Sitek

If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds. — Dave Sitek