The Irresistible Force quotes

“I Think, Therefore I Ambient”
-- The Irresistible Force

Source : Written on reverse of debut LP, 1991.

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“Live the Dream, Dream the Fish”
-- The Irresistible Force

Source : Written on reverse of Dreamfish CD, 1993.

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“It's time to lie down and be counted.”
-- The Irresistible Force

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“I'd rather lie down than jump up.”
-- The Irresistible Force

Source : "i-D" Magazine, 1994.

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“The dance industry is flogging a dead house.”
-- The Irresistible Force

Source : "Mixmag", 1997.

#House Quotes #Flogging Quotes

“Music is for sharing with people.”
-- The Irresistible Force

Source : "Looking for the Perfect Beat: The Art and Culture of the DJ". Book by Kurt B. Reighley, 2000.

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“If you're going to make music, you need to find the context in which it might be enjoyed.”
-- The Irresistible Force

#Needs Quotes #Might Quotes

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

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“Think it over, think it under.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“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.”

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“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.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”