Saunier Quotes

#1. Thoughts were nothing. Memories were nothing. They were nothing you could touch. They took no time. You could fit them all on the point of a pin. You could bring your entire world into doubt in a span of a few seconds.

Ann Brashares

#2. There's many kinds of kundalini, just as there's a spectrum of light. Put light through a prism and you get different gradations. So there are different gradations of kundalini. Some gradations of kundalini are darker, some are lighter.

Frederick Lenz

#3. What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

Greg Saunier

#4. It's amazing to think that there must be this river of ideas constantly rushing inside of a person, and once you've somehow found a path into it, then it's just there, whether you will it to be or not.

Greg Saunier

#5. It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

Greg Saunier

#6. That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

Greg Saunier

#7. About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Manolo Blahnik

#8. I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

Greg Saunier

#9. It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

Greg Saunier

#10. Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.

Louis J. Camuti

#11. When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

Greg Saunier

#12. With the 'Silly Boy' track, I mean, people knew about it, but it wasn't really like, 'oh that's Eva Simons.' But when 'Take Over Control' came out, that's when people started to get interested in me personally, which is great because it was something I really believed in.

Eva Simons

#13. When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

Greg Saunier

#14. I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

Greg Saunier

#15. Censorship exists to block criticism and protect corruption.

Suzy Kassem

#16. I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

Greg Saunier

#17. It's a great privilege to be able to play that much. When you play a lot, you can be really detail-oriented.

Greg Saunier

#18. I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

Greg Saunier

#19. I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

Greg Saunier

#20. I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

Oscar Niemeyer

#21. Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I have the best horses.

Adolfo Cambiaso

#22. When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.

Charlotte Rampling

#23. I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think it's an activity, a skill, something you strive to create. A constant conversation between emotion and imagination and flesh.

Greg Saunier

#24. Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.

Greg Saunier

#25. The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

Immanuel Kant

#26. Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

Greg Saunier

#27. I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

Alberto Salazar

#28. There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

Edward Teller

#29. Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

Nicolas Bentley

#30. There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

Greg Saunier

#31. I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it.

Greg Saunier

#32. What's great about going on tour is that it immediately unburdens me of those self-centered misconceptions. Because suddenly, with these songs you've been obsessed with for months, you're playing them for hundreds of people.

Greg Saunier

#33. I play drums, and I'd recommend it to anyone, except maybe your neighbors. It's great exercise - physical, mental, emotional, and social. It takes deep concentration but also activates concentration. If you're doing it right, it's always just a little harder than what you can actually pull off.

Greg Saunier

#34. I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

Greg Saunier

#35. My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.

Greg Saunier

#36. There were no rules. There's no guide to follow. I would just trust my instincts for some unknown reason. Something inside me would say, "This guitar is not loud enough," and I wouldn't know why. You never know how to reach that point until you've reached it.

Greg Saunier

#37. I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

Greg Saunier

#38. We cannot imagine Life without Death, because the entire Life rests on Death, otherwise it wouldn't exist.

Sorin Cerin