Quintano Downes Quotes

#1. I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time. #Quote by Geoff Downes

#2. A life lived wondering what life is about, is a life not lived at all #Quote by Luke Downes

#3. I've always been a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, 'Pan's Labryinth' blew me away. The stories and the worlds that he's created, he is truly a visionary! #Quote by Robin Atkin Downes

#4. She glanced round the garden. It was perfect, she thought. They were always gloomy about it, her mother and father. Terrible, terrible, they said - as though a few old weeds mattered! She liked it shaggy, its lawns white with daisies, the golden rod and the aster making tunnels of green gloom through which one could creep comfortably. But in the grown-up world, isolated behind the glass partition, such things counted. #Quote by Mollie Panter-Downes

#5. I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a wide range of disabilities. For six years I spent every summer living in a small cabin with five men with Downes Syndrome. It was just me and these five guys, all in their forties and fifties. We had such a great time. #Quote by Arthur Bradford

#6. So I stay in bed, thinking, not even reading. I write poems. I cry. I sleep. I become one with the bed, rooted. I'm sort of a mushroom. #Quote by Patrick Downes

#7. Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that. #Quote by Geoff Downes

#8. I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it ... I can replicate it, whether it's a dialect or just matching the tone of someones voice. #Quote by Robin Atkin Downes

#9. E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea
the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven
to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities. And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0. #Quote by Stephen Downes

#10. I have no regrets. To regret my past would be to admit I am not satisfied with who or what I have become. Everything I have accomplished and all I have been exposed to - good or evil - has created what sits before you. #Quote by Scott Hildreth

#11. Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period. #Quote by Geoff Downes

#12. I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably. #Quote by Geoff Downes

#13. As stakeholders run for the exits, market value is destroyed, and with it the flexibility to make strategic decisions. #Quote by Larry Downes

#14. Nature has always been and always will be, as far as my tiny brain can understand, miraculous. Except, nature won't last because the world won't. #Quote by Patrick Downes

#15. He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He died. #Quote by Patrick Downes

#16. We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later. #Quote by Geoff Downes

#17. Live a life wondering what life is about and fail to live at all. #Quote by Luke Downes

#18. Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track. #Quote by Geoff Downes

#19. Before the war cut her life so sharply in two, she had cherished her possessions jealously. ... Now that she had discovered the important truth that her flesh was as brittle as theirs and far more precious, the safety of china cupids had become irrelevant. #Quote by Mollie Panter-Downes

#20. Through the green slats of their private look-out post they could quiz the adult world, queer mixture of stupidity and power, getting on with its incomprehensible affairs, unconscious of spies in the undergrowth. #Quote by Mollie Panter-Downes

#21. With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail. #Quote by Geoff Downes

#22. Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield. #Quote by Geoff Downes

#23. You want to pass, or miss a turn. You have to move, though. When you do, you're suddenly weak. Zugzwang. #Quote by Patrick Downes

#24. Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years. #Quote by Geoff Downes

#25. I want to feel normal. I want to be normal. #Quote by Patrick Downes

#26. The more the world commits to programs for poverty and education, the greater the gap for those with intellectual disabilities. That's because money goes where results are quick and quantifiable, which is not likely for people with intellectual disabilities. #Quote by LAWRENCE DOWNES

#27. He looked at her amiably, as though she were a nice sofa. That must be the penalty of the grey hairs, the tired shadows under the eyes, that must be the beginning of getting old. She had noticed it. Young men looked at you as though you were a nice sofa, an article of furniture which they would never be desirous of acquiring. #Quote by Mollie Panter-Downes