Mutabaruka Cutting Quotes

#1. Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

Nile Rodgers

#2. You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.

Masha Tupitsyn

#3. If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have nothing to do with what I do. From a listening perspective, there's just something in their playing that I'm inspired by.

Sam Amidon

#4. Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

Andre Leon Talley

#5. It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

John Irving

#6. Process is not a substitute for skill.

Jim Highsmith

#7. Never stick your tongue out at someone you can't lick.

Sid Bolon

#8. As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

Thomas Sadoski

#9. As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.

Don DeLillo