#com

We stand with the people of Taiwan and their democratic ways, and I am proud to be a part of reaffirming the unwavering commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act by the United States Congress. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#am #commitment #congress #democratic #i

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. ↗

— Brian Eno

#best work #completely #do your best #fascinated #i

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. ↗

— Brian Eno

#believe #big #decide #forget #hurdle

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. ↗

— Brian Eno

#certain #complex #either #exclude #itself

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. ↗

— Brian Eno

#afterwards #again #composing #either #gardener

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play. ↗

— John Entwistle

#come #doing #get #i #mind

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention spans #coming #dominant #getting #hollywood

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#buildings #cannot #comprehend #medieval #really

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#command #course #distinguished #his #history

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#may #never #off #put #things