#to

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#anymore #doing #going #got #out

The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#been #did #done #four #get

There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#breathe #cd #cds #discussion #each

My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#bursts #dam #does #fact #flow

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?' ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#between #every #forth #fugue #last

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#hasn #looks #provided #she #stomach

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#government #half #high #high school #making

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#christ #cross #daily #daily life #harm

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage? ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#constitute #longer #man #marriage #means

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.' ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#compassion #concept #cultivated #culture #described