Marc Ribot famous quotes

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.
-- Marc Ribot

#One Direction #Sound #Modern

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.
-- Marc Ribot

#Directors

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.
-- Marc Ribot

#Hate #Want #Nostalgia

I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.
-- Marc Ribot

#Strong #Years #Political

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.
-- Marc Ribot

#Sorry #Mean #Avant Garde

Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.
-- Marc Ribot

#Running #Thinking #People

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
-- Marc Ribot

#Europe #Achievement #Different

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.
-- Marc Ribot

#Mean #Guitar #Pieces

I am on the side of pluralistic societies, and I will do whatever I can - by the best means available and any means necessary - to protect spaces that encourage open communication between people.
-- Marc Ribot

#Communication #Mean #Space

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.