Glenn Branca Quotes

#1. Normally you have news, weather and travel ... but not on snow day, on snow day news is weather is travel.

Michael McIntyre

#2. I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

Glenn Branca

#3. Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament. Fast rather than slow, more rather than less - this flashy "development" is linked directly to society's impending collapse.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#4. I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.

Glenn Branca

#5. Two there are who are never satisfied
the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Rumi

#6. One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

Glenn Branca

#7. Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.

Sean Bean

#8. It scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down, but they'll stop using their brain which is without a doubt the most powerful tool that you could have in any art.

Glenn Branca

#9. I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.

Glenn Branca

#10. Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

Mary Oliver

#11. I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.

Glenn Branca

#12. It can and will be a more powerful sound but the orchestra has far more potential for expressive power. When I hear a great rock band it can make me feel alive, but when I hear a great orchestra it can make me feel human.

Glenn Branca

#13. To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.

Ricky Gervais

#14. I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.

Glenn Branca

#15. It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.

Glenn Branca

#16. Cockroaches, Ari. Humans are like cockroaches." Crag nodded his head, his eyes twinkling.

Beverly Ovalle

#17. Sex is a three letter word even the worst speller in the world can spell.

Chloe Thurlow

#18. No matter what you're facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.

Elizabeth George

#19. I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

Glenn Branca

#20. There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.

Glenn Branca

#21. Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Aldous Huxley

#22. I'm never happy with anything.

Glenn Branca

#23. The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths.

Julie Lessman

#24. Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write ...

Glenn Branca

#25. It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.

Glenn Branca

#26. I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

Glenn Branca

#27. I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

Glenn Branca

#28. I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions.

Sebastian Bach

#29. Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

Glenn Branca

#30. I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

Glenn Branca

#31. The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.

Billy Campbell