Nicolas Godin quotes

“Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody and we have the song before, so if the keyboard sound fits very well, it takes its artistic direction. We play the machines and the machines play us.”
-- Nicolas Godin

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“I think getting stoned has made me buy a lot of bad albums, because when I'm stoned I think everything is amazing.”
-- Nicolas Godin

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“We want to be safe for the future because we don't know how record companies can afford to pay for studios for bands. If we build our own studio, it means we can make our own music for the rest of our lives, whatever happens. We feel safe now, it's really cool.”
-- Nicolas Godin

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“Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.”
-- Nicolas Godin

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“That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.”
-- Nicolas Godin

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“If you're in a commercial studio, you've got to be out by the end of the day, and it can be paralyzing, but if you have your own studio you move fast because you don't care. If you don't care, you can be patient, and also think fast.”
-- Nicolas Godin

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“It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a composition, and the song is good. It lives as a song. The worst is when you have a song and nothing is working well when you produce it. It's not like what you expect in your imagination. It's the worst because it requires a lot of work.”
-- Nicolas Godin

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“Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.”

“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.

“If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.”

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

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.”

“I think it's really important to live in the moment.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

“Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.”

“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”