Todd Edwards quotes

“You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time.”
-- Todd Edwards

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“Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well.”
-- Todd Edwards

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“You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.”
-- Todd Edwards

Source : Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. November 6, 2014.

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“It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.”

Source : "Aaron Johnson Interview NOWHERE BOY". Interview, collider.com. Ocotber 6, 2010.

“The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.”

“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

“That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.”

“On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.”

“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”

Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press