#kin

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#electronic #having #hence #i #images

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#bore #changing #conscious #could #different

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#anything #art #as far as #doing #else

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#always #boring #i #i remember #just

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there? ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#add #along #already #exit #how

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time. ↗

— Breaux Greer

#between #construction #doing #ever #first

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#editing #i #jobs #kinds #mostly

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#jagger #keith #keith richards #looked #mick

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#english #find #first #foremost #i

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #been #eliminated #exercise #genre