You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.


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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