Top 69 James Blake Quotes
#1. Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.
Lorde
#2. If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.
James Blake
#3. One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as many have discovered, you don't really know what you'll do in the dark till the lights go out.
James Carlos Blake
#4. I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.
James Blake
#5. If you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.
James Carlos Blake
#6. In the summer of 1845 Edward Little was sixteen years old and restless in his blood.
James Carlos Blake
#7. The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.
James Carlos Blake
#9. As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.
James Vila Blake
#10. When a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.
James Vila Blake
#11. Every single time it was grand. I loved the moment when you announce the stickup and everything suddenly goes brighter and sharper and the world seems to spin faster. You show them the gun and say hand it over and there's no telling what's going to happen in the next tick of the clock.
James Carlos Blake
#12. I understood more clearly than ever that the line between a noble revolutionary and a lowdown bandit was the line between war and peace.
James Carlos Blake
#13. Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.
James Carlos Blake
#14. If a woman has a good ass the rest of her wil be nicely configured too, except for maybe the face. The face is always on its own.
James Carlos Blake
#15. The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
James Carlos Blake
#16. Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.
Hal Duncan
#17. Without the right to defend yourself
and the right to possesss the means to do it
all other supposed rights are so much hot air.
James Carlos Blake
#19. As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.
James Vila Blake
#20. We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?
James Vila Blake
#21. I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.
James Blake
#22. At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.
James Blake
#23. Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.
James Carlos Blake
#24. Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.
James Carlos Blake
#25. It was my grandmother who first told me that a woman marries a man in the belief that he'll change but he doesn't
and a man marries a woman in the belief that she won't change but she does.
James Carlos Blake
#26. This is our great covenant:
To dwell together in peace,
To seek the truth in love,
And to help one another.
James Vila Blake
#27. A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.
James Blake
#28. The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.
James Carlos Blake
#29. Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.
James Vila Blake
#30. Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.
James Vila Blake
#31. We don't permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for moral outlooks. Don't tread on us and we won't on you. We're a tolerant, liberty-loving bunch, we Wolfes.
James Carlos Blake
#34. A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.
James Carlos Blake
#35. In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.
James Blake
#36. Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.
James Carlos Blake
#37. It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.
James Vila Blake
#38. Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.
James Vila Blake
#39. Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.
James Vila Blake
#40. As we pulled out of Zacatecas, the air was thick with the odors of smoldering ash, bloody dust, putrefying flesh. The rich ripe smells of triumph.
James Carlos Blake
#41. Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.
James Blake
#42. An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.
James Vila Blake
#43. You do not tell people to go fuck themselves and then later when you're in trouble ask them to help you.
James Carlos Blake
#45. Like Villa, I believed that even though some men did not deserve to go on living, they still deserved to be remembered at their best.
James Carlos Blake
#46. I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens.
James Blake
#47. I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really.
James Blake
#48. The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.
James Blake
#49. I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
James Blake
#50. The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.
James Vila Blake
#51. As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.
James Vila Blake
#52. I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.
James Blake
#53. We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.
James Blake
#54. The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life
the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense
the life of Blake or of Dante
taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.
James Joyce
#55. He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.
James Carlos Blake
#56. I've never been given to casual use of vulgar language
unwarranted profanity implies mental laziness
but there's no other way to say this: a guy tries to fuck me ... well, fuck him.
James Carlos Blake
#57. There's an old saying," Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.
James Carlos Blake
#58. My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.
James Blake
#59. East Side, West Side, all around the town,
The tots sang Ring-a-rosie, London Bridge is falling Down;
Boys and Girls together, me and Mamie O'Rorke,
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York.
James W. Blake
#60. The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness.
James Carlos Blake
#61. I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.
James Blake
#62. Never did I fight for the poor. I fought against the rich
which of course isn't at all the same thing. In any case, the fighting was the point. You don't fight to become free
to fight is to be free. A man with a gun and the will to use it can't be mastered, he can only be killed.
James Carlos Blake
#63. I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?
James Merrill
#64. It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound ... it's like musical landfill.
James Blake
#65. Take out all but one bullet and it was Russian Roulette. In Mexican Roulette, as he'd heard it defined, you took out only one. In Drunk Mexican Roulette you didn't take out any.
James Carlos Blake
#66. The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.
James Blake
#67. I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.
James Blake
#68. To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.
James Joyce
#69. He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.
James Carlos Blake
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