Nitin Sawhney quotes
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“We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both.”
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“More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.”
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“You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.”
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“It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.”
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“Your subconscious protects you. It's all about listening to it.”
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“I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.”
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“Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.”
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“It's symbolic of how I feel, with cameras on every street corner. Being watched all the time, having my sense of freedom invaded. Privacy is an important thing, and it has been eroded over the past few years. Now they're talking about body scans at airports. Democracy becomes a sham the second you have to give way to authorities who can do any kind of search that they want with you.”
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“Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.”
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“Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.”
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“Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.”
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“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
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