quotes about Gamble

“An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.”

“When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.”

“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.”

“The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.”

“We just all need to stick together and unite, be together and support one another.”

“the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.”

“I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.”

“I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.”

Source : "Coldplay: Four Best Friends, Powered By Chemistry". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 21, 2011.

“Sometimes staying strong means not putting yourself in uncomfortable or triggering situations.”

“I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.”