#roc

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#done #i #just #like #meant

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested. ↗

— Al Gore

#active role #campaign #empowers #individuals #internet

And I look forward to the time when I can become more indulgent with my songwriting. But this band is a family, and it's a process that we have to grow with together. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#become #family #forward #grow #i

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#band #certain #certain things #decision-making #decision-making process

Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#bands #been #being #control #eddie

Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#had #heart #marciano #rocky #something

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#course #favorite #marciano #massachusetts #rocky

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#acquire #begin #country #cultural #earth