Marc Martel Quotes

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never would have thought of doing that,' when you deconstruct it. It's something you really can't do sometimes when you're just listening to a song. You have to really get into it.

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll!

Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

'Raaga' is one of those movies which is very special for any music director to compose music for.

My first album was very eclectic and very soft as a vocal expression.

Obviously I have more in common with Jekyll, but there's something about Hyde.

It's interesting what a new song can do to the other songs. A new song can be the grout of the record, tie the songs together, and define a new room in the house, helping the other rooms make sense.

The riffs, lyrics, and drums of 'Open Your Omen' will tell you a lot.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign.

Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Duality is always secretly unity.

I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.

Humans don't exist on the same level as immortals. They can't even be hurt by our weapons. But you,Percy - you are part god,part human.You live in both worlds.You can be harmed by both,and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special.

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too.

Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.

I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many similar elements: harmonic rhythm, placement of the chord changes, choice of harmonic progressions, similar instrumentation, vocal phrases, drum fills, content, even the timbre of the lead solo voice. I decided to write a song that incorporated all these elements in one record.

As a twin, I operate with twin desires.

There's two heads to every coin.