Christopher Tin quotes

“I don't like to do things the same way every time. You always want to be evolving as a composer, and if your creative process is exactly the same each time, then how do you expect today's work to be any different from yesterday's?”
-- Christopher Tin

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“It's the lifestyle of easy money, fast cars and supermodels that keep me going.”
-- Christopher Tin

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 8, 2014.

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“The music I actually listen to sounds nothing like my own!”
-- Christopher Tin

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“I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.”
-- Christopher Tin

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“You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!”
-- Christopher Tin

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“As for drinks, I'm a sucker for flavored teas.”
-- Christopher Tin

Source : Reddit AMA, www.topiama.com. May 8, 2014.

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“It's easy to be a one-hit wonder. It's hard to stay relevant for more than a few years.”
-- Christopher Tin

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“I can speak for myself and say that a lot of times you just make mistakes! You're under pressure to get something done in a limited amount of time, and so you just dive in without really knowing what you're getting yourself into.”
-- Christopher Tin

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“Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.”

“To-day is always different from yesterday.”

“But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.”

Source : Alexandra Ripley (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”, Macmillan Reference USA

“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”

“Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.”

“Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...”

“The hand is no different from what it creates.”

“Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.”

“In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.”

“It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.218, Simon and Schuster