Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

I don’t think of poetry as a ‚rational‘ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, ‚You know, there’s no sound in outer space.‘

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

I like black because it is a vacant space.