Sondre Lerche Quotes

#1. If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.

Steve Coogan

#2. A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We

Lidia Yuknavitch

#3. I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.

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#4. Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Eric S. Raymond

#5. There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

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#6. I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

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#7. I'm a big Bond fan.

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#8. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

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#9. I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

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#10. Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

Anthony Burgess

#11. All children accomplish milestones in their own way, in their own time.

Magda Gerber

#12. I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

George Brett

#13. Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

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#14. People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

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#15. However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#16. I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

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#17. After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Emile M. Cioran

#18. Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

William Hazlitt

#19. I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

Jonathan Winters

#20. I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

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#21. You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

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#22. I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.

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#23. What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

Andrew Harvey

#24. History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

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#25. Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

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#26. If men must beg to live,May the Creator also go wandering and perish.

Thiruvalluvar

#27. When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

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#28. I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

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#29. Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of these memories has led to one result: me.

Haruki Murakami

#30. We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

Ethan Coen