Kaskade Quotes

The reason Strapping Young Lad was such a good band was we were honest about what we were doing.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

What music can do so well is tell the truth in a subjective way.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for [most] people music isn't just something to dance to.

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

I've written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I'll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time, I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little - music changes into something else when you read it.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.

Nothing is impossible in the United States.