Randy Thom quotes

“Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else”
-- Randy Thom

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“A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices.”
-- Randy Thom

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“Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're given for artistic decisions. And sometimes we make them better than others, and I guess we made a couple of good ones on this one.”
-- Randy Thom

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“Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.”

“On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.”

“When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy.”

Source : Chester Himes (2011). “The Crazy Kill”, p.158, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

“Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.”

“The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.”

“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”

“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”

“Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”

“We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.”

Source : "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

“I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.”