Trevor Horn quotes

“Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.”
-- Trevor Horn

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I am associated with techno epics.”
-- Trevor Horn

Source : "Horn of plenty". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2004.

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“I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.”
-- Trevor Horn

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“I hate having to read the manual.”
-- Trevor Horn

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.”
-- Trevor Horn

Source : "Horn of plenty". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2004.

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“Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.”
-- Trevor Horn

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“One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.”

“I'm young but I'm not stupid.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.”

“On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.”

“If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.”

“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”

“There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.”

“What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.”

“Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.”

“Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!”