FastSaying

The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.


Gavin Newsom

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
RACHEL BILSON He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead.
ERIN HUNTER Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let...
GIL PENCHINA It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not a...
MICHAEL SCHIAVO Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demograp...
THOMAS PEREZ Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demograp...
THOMAS E. PEREZ We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills...
DAN WEBSTER I found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It's not rocket science wh...
BOB HARPER I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.
CARSON KRESSLEY Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories...
LOUISE FRESCO It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. ELIOT Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
THOMAS PETERFFY Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people...
TOM PETERS If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's ...
GEOFF HOON The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it...
BEN OKRI The best part of having a relationship is getting to call the person or lay down next to them and te...
TEGAN QUIN 'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexual...
BARRY JENKINS We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shippe...
JAMES P. HOFFA One of my rules is: If it's good for the planet, it's usually good for your wallet.
JEAN CHATZKY It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.
JAKE ROBERTS I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don&...
FRANK BLACK It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'
ATO BOLDON Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of ...
MICHAEL SHERMER When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia cod...
DAVID CHASE Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
DERRICK GRAYSON The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?...
DAVID MAMET We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It'...
JOEL COEN It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal s...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN There's something about somebody who does something special in the UFC that they're allotted...
TYRON WOODLEY We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It&...
ANNIE LENNOX 'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.
LENA DUNHAM Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.
WOLFGANG PUCK The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It...
CORY BOOKER I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It...
GUY RITCHIE Moving on is not closure. It's not neat, and it's not about turning the page. It is about mo...
THOMAS GIBSON The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what ot...
PAUL MERTON Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It...
BEAR GRYLLS It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.
MARK DAVIS There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have th...
CARRIE NUGENT It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
DAN BROWN Wizard's Seventh Rule
Life is the future, not the past.
TERRY GOODKIND It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.
STEVEN WRIGHT Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms....
ROXANE GAY There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, t...
LARRY POONS It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation o...
ELIZABETH A. SHERMAN Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
DONATELLA VERSACE It's always fun to play a character that bends the rules.
MIKE COLTER I do really silly dancing. I love dancing, but I'm not cool when I dance. It's not about my ...
IMOGEN HEAP I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it&...
GWYNETH PALTROW It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.
LYNN DAVIES Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
TAJ MAHAL Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
ALAN SHEARER The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's...
STACEY DASH I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material...
PETER ZUMTHOR A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I ha...
DANIEL BOULUD If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not f...
CALVIN TRILLIN Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
JOHN LASSETER Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires,...
BEAU WILLIMON Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
DEYTH BANGER Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So...
ARUNDHATI ROY That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just...
CARLY FIORINA The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution o...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as mu...
BORIS BECKER The NCAA has its rules. It's our job to abide by them.
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human be...
GRIMES What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditc...
ELIZABETH WARREN It's natural to get nervous about anything you care about.
LAURA HARRIER It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your...
CAROL ALT Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
SOPHIA BUSH It's not about hiding your imperfections on a shoot; it's about embracing them and being una...
ERIN O'CONNOR Can dancing change your life? Yes. It's changed mine. What I've learned is, it's not abo...
LISA RINNA It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's no...
RALPH LAUREN It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of th...
IAN MILLAR When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It&...
SINEAD O'CONNOR When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It&...
SINEAD O'CONNOR Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think...
GINNI ROMETTY Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
SIMON SINEK We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what yo...
VICTORIA LEGRAND We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, wom...
KATHERINE HARRIS Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
MANNY PACQUIAO And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it'...
ALPHONSO JACKSON Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the...
ROBERT J. SHILLER Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a...
THERESA MAY What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's...
SUSAN POWTER It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear ac...
SARAH HALL Wearing this kind of costume is not something I fantasize about. It's not natural, it's not ...
JOAN SEVERANCE Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it'...
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about ...
MARILYN MANSON As we start to get a little bit older, boy, keep your house in order. That's the key thing. It&#...
JIM IRSAY Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
ANNETTE BENING The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they ...
LARRY BRILLIANT I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
GIANNI VERSACE When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or re...
TIM TEBOW Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets ...
LISA LESLIE The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
DANA SNYDER Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.
TONY CARDENAS

More Gavin Newsom

I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from Californi...
GAVIN NEWSOM The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know ...
GAVIN NEWSOM I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
GAVIN NEWSOM President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journal...
GAVIN NEWSOM California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we j...
GAVIN NEWSOM You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.
GAVIN NEWSOM As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful...
GAVIN NEWSOM Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed com...
GAVIN NEWSOM If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a shor...
GAVIN NEWSOM As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projec...
GAVIN NEWSOM If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secret...
GAVIN NEWSOM Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for vis...
GAVIN NEWSOM The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
GAVIN NEWSOM The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public ...
GAVIN NEWSOM You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavi...
GAVIN NEWSOM It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
GAVIN NEWSOM When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasive...
GAVIN NEWSOM Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our stat...
GAVIN NEWSOM If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative...
GAVIN NEWSOM If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of informa...
GAVIN NEWSOM City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy ...
GAVIN NEWSOM Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk yout...
GAVIN NEWSOM The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
GAVIN NEWSOM An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providin...
GAVIN NEWSOM Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up ...
GAVIN NEWSOM You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
GAVIN NEWSOM San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Gol...
GAVIN NEWSOM Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politi...
GAVIN NEWSOM Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only...
GAVIN NEWSOM There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous ...
GAVIN NEWSOM I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
GAVIN NEWSOM The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, brin...
GAVIN NEWSOM We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and f...
GAVIN NEWSOM San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poet...
GAVIN NEWSOM There is always a fine line ? do you restrict or just allow ? and we erred on the side of allowing, ...
GAVIN NEWSOM It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselv...
GAVIN NEWSOM If Hurricane Katrina didn't prove it to you, I don't know what will, ... I'm not waiting, in the eve...
GAVIN NEWSOM You know we're the only city -- I think we're the only big city in America ... there may be an excep...
GAVIN NEWSOM All I can think of is, what's next? ... That's what's so exciting - how do we top this?
GAVIN NEWSOM It's difficult to argue, or suggest, we should cut someone's budget, ... when you're dealing with th...
GAVIN NEWSOM This is real. This is about basic, fundamental rights. It's about laying a foundation of equality fo...
GAVIN NEWSOM I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those...
GAVIN NEWSOM I do not believe it's appropriate for me ... to discriminate against people.
GAVIN NEWSOM However, no one is more disappointed than the tens of thousands of couples and their families that w...
GAVIN NEWSOM You don't hire those positions. You get the money that was set aside, for over time costs.
GAVIN NEWSOM a chance to see its beauty with their own eyes.
GAVIN NEWSOM I just can't imagine a better place for the summer Olympics,
GAVIN NEWSOM Now, we can take care of the normal, last-minute preparations.
GAVIN NEWSOM It's just idyllic, ... I think that's what's going to knock people's socks off.
GAVIN NEWSOM The extremes are we have over 550 people in San Francisco earning over $100,000 a year, ... Principa...
GAVIN NEWSOM The extremes are we have over 550 people in San Francisco earning over $100,000 a year. Principally,...
GAVIN NEWSOM My intent is to have the taxpayers pay little or nothing,
GAVIN NEWSOM This is inevitable; it's long overdue; and the public has a fundamental right to have access to info...
GAVIN NEWSOM This is about bringing the heart and soul of San Francisco back to the forefront,
GAVIN NEWSOM I'm sick to my stomach.
GAVIN NEWSOM All of us are in in shock, ... This is a senseless and unexplainable act that goes beyond the pale. ...
GAVIN NEWSOM is wrong and inconsistent with the values this country holds dear.
GAVIN NEWSOM I will not abdicate and step back and say what we were doing 10, 15 days ago -- before this action -...
GAVIN NEWSOM stale rhetoric. Divisive rhetoric. Absurd.
GAVIN NEWSOM I'm opposed to this initiative on every level because it hurts the priorities our community cares mo...
GAVIN NEWSOM My heart is heavy, ... I respectfully disagree with the Supreme Court's decision, but I respect the ...
GAVIN NEWSOM These are senseless inexplicable things that are beyond the pale of imagination, ... It makes you, f...
GAVIN NEWSOM I am disappointed but I confess I'm not particularly surprised,
GAVIN NEWSOM Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
GAVIN NEWSOM You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it&...
GAVIN NEWSOM Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotion...
GAVIN NEWSOM Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage eq...
GAVIN NEWSOM I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor...
GAVIN NEWSOM It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded...
GAVIN NEWSOM Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal go...
GAVIN NEWSOM You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to...
GAVIN NEWSOM I never, ever considered an evacuation strategy in San Francisco that would require the entire city ...
GAVIN NEWSOM San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainab...
GAVIN NEWSOM California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn th...
GAVIN NEWSOM I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its ind...
GAVIN NEWSOM The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenop...
GAVIN NEWSOM [San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom quickly decided that the shocking scenes of Katrina provided a tea...
GAVIN NEWSOM We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential district...
GAVIN NEWSOM If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected ...
GAVIN NEWSOM If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain th...
GAVIN NEWSOM You don't have to be something to do something.
GAVIN NEWSOM When you have a good idea, the money flows.
GAVIN NEWSOM As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
GAVIN NEWSOM During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
GAVIN NEWSOM I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
JOANNA NEWSOM I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
JOANNA NEWSOM It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But ...
JOANNA NEWSOM Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I jus...
JOANNA NEWSOM I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
JOANNA NEWSOM I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
JOANNA NEWSOM I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don...
JOANNA NEWSOM I don't think we can say where he'll go, ... This guy seems to be rather irrational.
JOHN NEWSOM It's a sad coincidence, ... The corrections officers did what they were supposed to do.
JOHN NEWSOM The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, ou...
JOANNA NEWSOM It's a major undertaking, and that's what the Council on Postsecondary Education is directing all it...
DEBBIE NEWSOM The goal of the Council on Postsecondary Education is to close what they call a funding gap. If the ...
DEBBIE NEWSOM With so many other demands on state funds, the proposal gives us an idea on where education funding ...
DEBBIE NEWSOM I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are comp...
JOANNA NEWSOM This is another important step in executing our growth strategy in the group life and disability bus...
LARRY NEWSOM We know that the high, attainable goals we have set for ourselves require a disciplined organization...
LARRY NEWSOM We are enthusiastic about the potential of a long-term partnership with the Swiss Life Network. With...
LARRY NEWSOM A happy wife is a happy life.
GAVIN ROSSDALE Craft is part of the creative process.
GAVIN BRYARS I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run...
GAVIN ROSSDALE If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
GAVIN ROSSDALE The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
GAVIN ROSSDALE Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just...
GAVIN ROSSDALE When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
GAVIN O'CONNOR From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just...
GAVIN O'CONNOR I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on s...
GAVIN O'CONNOR The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a crimina...
GAVIN O'CONNOR As a kid, when most of my friends were into Superman and Batman, there was only one superhero who he...
GAVIN O'CONNOR Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, w...
GAVIN O'CONNOR At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one whit...
GAVIN O'CONNOR The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leavi...
GAVIN O'CONNOR My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
GAVIN O'CONNOR The script is just a blueprint.
GAVIN O'CONNOR I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for t...
GAVIN O'CONNOR I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outs...
GAVIN O'CONNOR 3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it ...
GAVIN HOOD I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all wr...
GAVIN HOOD I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
GAVIN HOOD My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
GAVIN HOOD The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flaw...
GAVIN HOOD What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best w...
GAVIN HOOD In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns...
GAVIN HOOD For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Gr...
GAVIN HOOD In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene,...
GAVIN HOOD Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad gu...
GAVIN HOOD The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not...
GAVIN HOOD When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of ...
GAVIN HOOD There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mix...
GAVIN HOOD So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
GAVIN DEGRAW My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it...
GAVIN DEGRAW I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.
GAVIN DEGRAW I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
GAVIN DEGRAW I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
GAVIN DEGRAW I love to play music.
GAVIN DEGRAW It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
GAVIN DEGRAW I like to do the splits onstage.
GAVIN DEGRAW I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on...
GAVIN DEGRAW But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.
GAVIN DEGRAW When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to recei...
GAVIN DEGRAW I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
GAVIN DEGRAW I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
GAVIN DEGRAW We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
GAVIN DEGRAW I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.
GAVIN DEGRAW So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
GAVIN DEGRAW So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as faili...
GAVIN DEGRAW Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
GAVIN DEGRAW I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
GAVIN DEGRAW When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on hallowe...
GAVIN DEGRAW There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
GAVIN DEGRAW So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
GAVIN DEGRAW When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he ...
GAVIN BRYARS The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sc...
GAVIN BRYARS One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spac...
GAVIN BRYARS I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a compos...
GAVIN BRYARS I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
GAVIN BRYARS I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European...
GAVIN BRYARS I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
GAVIN BRYARS I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
GAVIN BRYARS I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting ...
GAVIN BRYARS It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scienti...
GAVIN BRYARS People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
GAVIN BRYARS Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not co...
GAVIN BRYARS Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
GAVIN BRYARS There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
GAVIN BRYARS Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a...
GAVIN BRYARS The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
GAVIN BRYARS What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
GAVIN BRYARS I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don'...
GAVIN ANDRESEN I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering abi...
GAVIN ANDRESEN You really want some natural way for people to get Bitcoins, as part of their paycheck or some other...
GAVIN ANDRESEN The regulation picture has gotten a lot clearer in the U.S. and most of Europe. And that's fanta...
GAVIN ANDRESEN Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go ma...
GAVIN ANDRESEN Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about go...
GAVIN ANDRESEN I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
GAVIN ANDRESEN In the future, I expect to see bitcoin mining in places where electricity is free or cheap. You coul...
GAVIN ANDRESEN There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ...
GAVIN ANDRESEN Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and beco...
GAVIN ANDRESEN My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations ...
GAVIN ANDRESEN When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more d...
GAVIN ROSSDALE I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
GAVIN ROSSDALE As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on ou...
GAVIN ROSSDALE It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
GAVIN ROSSDALE I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
GAVIN ROSSDALE As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no ...
GAVIN ROSSDALE In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
GAVIN ROSSDALE I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebod...
GAVIN ROSSDALE I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
GAVIN ROSSDALE The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
GAVIN ROSSDALE I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all ...
GAVIN ROSSDALE Any reaction is better than none.
GAVIN ROSSDALE I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
GAVIN ROSSDALE Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
GAVIN ROSSDALE For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
GAVIN ROSSDALE There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.
GAVIN ROSSDALE