Tong Quotes

#1. The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.

Ernest Bramah

#2. All I ever wanted to be was a Ninja ... Tong from Kickboxer, Sagat from Street Fighter.

Pat Barry

#3. A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.

Hakim Bey

#4. The Master said, The gentleman harmonizes [he] without being an echo. The petty man echoes [tong] and does not harmonize.

Confucius

#5. I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: "You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us."

Vivian Balakrishnan

#6. I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

Lu Tong

#7. Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

Matt Tong

#8. The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people in sound. When you play live, you want to grab people on the visceral level. They're completely different.

Matt Tong

#9. In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

Goh Chok Tong

#10. After a while, you start to believe that your opinions are more valid than everyone else's. It can be hard to be humble about making really good music; you really believe that you're a savior to music. That's why bands don't like each other.

Matt Tong

#11. I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

Matt Tong

#12. Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

Matt Tong

#13. Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.

Ziya Tong

#14. I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

Matt Tong

#15. Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

Matt Tong

#16. You want to reach people on a real level and have a fan base that understands you.

Matt Tong

#17. Small knowledge is Big dangerous

Steve Tong

#18. Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no retrenchments, then I worry.

Goh Chok Tong

#19. You can't help hearing things that are popular when you're young and impressionable.

Matt Tong

#20. There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

Matt Tong

#21. I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.

Lu Tong

#22. When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate.

Matt Tong

#23. Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates and to spread across the globe.

Ziya Tong

#24. I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.

Matt Tong

#25. I don't really believe in the use of drum machines live.

Matt Tong

#26. Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

Matt Tong

#27. Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

Matt Tong

#28. As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

Goh Chok Tong

#29. There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

Matt Tong

#30. I want the words to be read in conjunction with the music.

Matt Tong

#31. These chicken feet are first quality. You appreciate them?

Paul Theroux

#32. I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Matt Tong

#33. I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

Matt Tong

#34. Most of what we know about human evolution comes from these: the fossilized bones of our ancestors. With their help, we've traced our evolution from small furry creatures to the big-brained beings we've become today. But bones can't tell us everything.

Ziya Tong

#35. Who's sick? If I want to die, I'll just die; it's too tiresome to be sick. - Lotus

Su Tong

#36. It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

Matt Tong

#37. There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

Matt Tong

#38. My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

Goh Chok Tong

#39. I feel that's important that I have some place to go that isn't on the cover of a magazine. I signed up to make music.

Matt Tong

#40. Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

Goh Chok Tong

#41. I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

Matt Tong

#42. I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Matt Tong

#43. I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Goh Chok Tong