Marc Ribot quotes
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“Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.”
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“Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.”
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“I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.”
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“I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.”
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“Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.”
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“Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.”
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“Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.”
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“I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.”
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“I am on the side of pluralistic societies, and I will do whatever I can - by the best means available and any means necessary - to protect spaces that encourage open communication between people.”
-- Marc RibotSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.”
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“I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.”
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“I love art, I collect mostly modern art.”
Source : "TechStar Interview: Alan Patricof". Interview with Bill Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.
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“The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.”
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Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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