Stevie Jackson quotes

“The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.”
-- Stevie Jackson

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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“I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.”
-- Stevie Jackson

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

#Thinking Quotes #Records Quotes #Representation Quotes

“Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.”
-- Stevie Jackson

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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“Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.”
-- Stevie Jackson

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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“In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the record. We used to do it all by ourselves. I just don't really want to do it anymore. I want somebody to do it for me. I want to concentrate on other things. That's been a big change, a learning curve. But no regrets, it's all part of life's rich tapestry.”
-- Stevie Jackson

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

#Regret Quotes #Curves Quotes #Records Quotes

“I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.”
-- Stevie Jackson

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

#Thinking Quotes #Shy Quotes #Groups Quotes

“I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.”
-- Stevie Jackson

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

#Reading Quotes #Biographies Quotes #Groups Quotes

“I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.”
-- Stevie Jackson

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

#Thinking Quotes #Artistic Quotes #Good Art Quotes

“If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.208, Courier Corporation

“O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.”

“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”

“The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 09, 2013

“Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.”

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”