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Yann Tiersen Quotes

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: french
Birth: June 23, 1970

Topics

Music I Am Way More Band Punk

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Father Mother Home School Student

What the voters told us in the 2010 election was that they wanted a change. And I believe a moderate approach with a dedication to working across the aisle, something I know is important to both me and Congressman Shuler, is the best way forward.

Change Best Dedication Me Believe

I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.

Think Person Stealing Different

Every senator needs to stand up and represent their constituents - not big business, not the ACLU, not activist groups, not political interests, but the American interests, the workers' interests.

Business Stand Up Stand Political Up

I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.

Work Art Myself New York Ideas New

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Imagination World You Back Place

The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.

You Africa First Air Breath Like

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

People Talk Years Rights Nineties

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Life Value End Meaning Measure How

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

Jazz Bachelor Master

Fools are without number.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fools Without Number

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Anthony Kennedy

Government Speech First Amendment

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