#ban

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. ↗

— David Byrne

#bands #crap #decide #given #going

Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle. ↗

— David Byrne

#away #band #break #bundle #completely

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. ↗

— David Byrne

#objects #often #ridicule #sheds #suburban

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. ↗

— Francis Aungier

#away #bankers #extent #feeling #gave

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american president #bank #chase #loyal #manhattan

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. ↗

— Lord Byron

#fall #fear #freed #hath #himself

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise. ↗

— Vince Cable

#assets #banks #breathing #british #business

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bank #bosses #british #daily #dodge

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved. ↗

— Vince Cable

#achieve #anger #apology #attacking #banks

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #british #culture #existing #focusing