Quotes About Relevance

The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties?

In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.

I'm not just a Sixties act.

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

No one cares about your logo, nor the font size that's on your site.

The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they're not relevant in our world.

I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.

When you work at Google and tell these engineers that their skill set is relevant to somebody in Iran who doesn't have access to information in their country or the rest of the world, it really inspires them to want to do something about it. There is a genuine altruism that exists at this company, and that's why I'm here and not anywhere else.

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, What the Hell was that. As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.

Blogging, I love you no matter how out of fashion you are.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.

While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity

Ah," he said in a tone of genial wisdom, "a chancellor is rather like a bidet. Everyone is pleased to have one, but no one knows quite what they are for." A chancellor is nominally the head of a university, but in practice has no role, no power, no purpose.

Put in the crudest terms, Australia was slightly more important to us in 1997 than bananas, but not nearly as important as ice cream.