Marshall McLuhan Quotes

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it's cool. It's worth it.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.'

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

At the end of the day, I earn a living by creating music and not sharing it with anyone because I am my own master. I know my worth.

Without question, intelligent technologies will continue to disrupt the world as we know it. There will be profound implications, both positive and negative.

Technology is growing in all possible ways. It is affecting our lifestyle also.

Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

None of you speaks for me. I speak for me. I am a judge. I am independent. I make up my own mind.

Being independent gives me freedom to creatively be great. Standing on your own doesn't always get major exposure or support, but because I make music from a pure place, I am more so excited and relieved that it actually gets out into the universe.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or someone else responsible for me. It is really cool as an artist to have that freedom.

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will.