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This isn't just tossing out a tool; it's like tossing out the whole toolbox.


Eric Holdeman

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WASHED OUT I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to...
WASHED OUT Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if th...
WASHED OUT I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until ...
WASHED OUT It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
WASHED OUT I'm not a very technical musician at all.
WASHED OUT I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to s...
WASHED OUT Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imagin...
WASHED OUT In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
WASHED OUT I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.
WASHED OUT I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. ...
WASHED OUT The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey en...
WASHED OUT I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fas...
WASHED OUT For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho...
WASHED OUT Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the...
WASHED OUT Texture is very important. Just the feel of everything. It's not always about recording everythi...
WASHED OUT It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can ...
WASHED OUT It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are...
WASHED OUT I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
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WASHED OUT The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be...
WASHED OUT The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atm...
WASHED OUT Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an...
WASHED OUT I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I w...
WASHED OUT When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
WASHED OUT I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing....
WASHED OUT When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most ...
WASHED OUT If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kin...
WASHED OUT I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recordi...
WASHED OUT The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're...
WASHED OUT I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.
WASHED OUT There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old mo...
WASHED OUT Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that b...
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ERIC HOFFER Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
ERIC HOFFER The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
ERIC HOFFER There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
ERIC HOFFER The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge...
ERIC HOFFER Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
ERIC HOFFER We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
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