Gears Quotes - Page 13

• There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.

  A-Trak

  Ideas, Want, Producers

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.

  Kevin Morby

  Song, Practice, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.

  Martin Gore

  Vintage, Machines, Buying

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• The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Sexy, Arms, Pounds

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• The year was 1996, Guy Mariano and I had no clothing sponsors, and at that point in our lives we had purchased enough Polo, Hilfiger and Nautica gear to think, hey, maybe we should start a clothing company.

  Eric Koston

  Thinking, Years, Guy

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• You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.

  Richie Hawtin

  Ideas, Needs, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Richie Hawtin from Oct 31, 2012

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• Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

  Allison Mackie

  Dark, Unique, Mind

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• Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Dream, Stars, Spring

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky

  Richard Hammond

  Thinking, Car, Luck

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• Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

  Christine Lavin

  Football, Song, Writing

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• When we went to Canada [with Top Gear], I was staggered about how many people got in touch ... Before we finish with The Grand Tour, we'll definitely be appearing in Canada at some point. Nothing is more certain than that.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  People, Canada, Top Gear

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• No doubt, the United States and the American people are a gear country and a great people. Nobody disputes this, but talking about exceptionalism is way too much, and this is creating certain problems in relations, and not only with Russia, as I see it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Talking

  Source: www.rt.com

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• There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

  Frank Borman

  Airplane, Moon, Space

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• When I first got to L.A., I was stretching $20 a week, waiting tables, and I did that for about six months. I didn't mind it at all, I was really happy for that experience, but it made me really get aggressive about what I want. I've been doing this since I was eight, and never considered doing anything else, so I really had to kick it into gear.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Eight, Waiting, Mind

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• My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

  Karen O

  Steps, Kind, Moments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.

  Criss Jami

  Hate, Men, Differences

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.113, Criss Jami

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• Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

  Sam Abell

  Distance, Believe, Ambition

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• The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one's self.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Flower, Believe, Self

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• I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.

  Paul McCartney

  Piano, Singing, Mahler

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• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Doctors, Two, Mind

  G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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• Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.

  John Feldmann

  Morning, Coffee, Ocean

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Rico Gear. What a great-sounding name. He sounds like a drug dealer from Brazil.

  Murray Mexted

  Names, Drug, Sound

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• The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.

  Sophocles

  Crush, Greek, Combat

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• The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.

  Elliott Abrams

  Iran, Years, Faces

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