#sing

I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but also seems to be increasingly anti-American in its policies and conduct. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#am #anti-american #conduct #country #disturbed

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#any #architectural #architecture #between #continuing

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#competitions #designs #feature #green #increasingly

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#choices #curse #get #go #i

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#am #because #beginning #collapsing #compulsive

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#best #cities #context #create #desired

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#air #air conditioning #almost #also #appeared

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#advertising #art #art world #based #believe

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#guitar #had #hear #i #instruments

I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#gets #going #hard #i #i think