Top 29 Sylvian Quotes
#1. I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.
David Sylvian
#2. They had much discussion upon the question whether marriage was a prejudice or a crime, and whether men were born equal or not, and precisely what individuality consists in. Things
Ivan Turgenev
#3. I'll go walking in circles
While doubting the very ground beneath me
Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything
David Sylvian
#4. He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?'
'No, I have not.'
'Well, well, such is fame!
Arthur Conan Doyle
#5. The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.
Samuel Logan Brengle
#6. I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.
David Sylvian
#7. Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.
David Sylvian
#8. And thou my minde aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
Philip Sidney
#9. Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.
David Sylvian
#10. The essence of the moon, gathered by a virgin, added to the death of innocence. [Sylvian]
Karen Maitland
#11. A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
Robert Genn
#12. You are the sacred consummation of the sun and the moon and the shadow and you will become the poison of death. [Sylvian]
Karen Maitland
#13. I have been wronged by so many men that I find it hard to trust anyone and see only greed and malice in every heart. [Sylvian]
Karen Maitland
#14. And remember how he wrote the first Rocky in a few days, and wouldn't sell the script even though he was starving, because they wanted to put somebody else in the lead role. To see what he's accomplished, dog, that's what it's all about.
Terry Crews
#15. Somewhere, someone isn't impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You're unbelievably boring to more people than you'll ever know.
Henry Rollins
#16. During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.
David Sylvian
#17. It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.
David Sylvian
#19. I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.
David Sylvian
#20. UnLondon would have to look after itself. She wasn't the Shwazzy. She was just someone. How could just someone be any help, whatever was going on?
China Mieville
#21. People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.
David Sylvian
#22. Those who kill can never be forgiven, for their victims cannot forgive them. And they go, drenched in guilt, to their graves. [Sylvian]
Karen Maitland
#23. Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.
Nelson Mandela
#24. When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features.
Richard Donner
#26. I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
Alex Gibney
#28. The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.
David Sylvian
#29. Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
David Sylvian
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