K. Taylor Quotes
To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.
There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.
I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.
You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.
For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.
In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.
When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."
I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.
Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.
A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.
Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.
The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.
One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.
New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.
And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.
One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.
What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.
On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I've relaxed enormously since then. I'm the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.
I am always surprised by people who speak of faith as if it happens in the air somewhere. Our bodies are God's best way of getting to us. Revelation begins in the flesh.
I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.
There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.
I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.
Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.
The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.
If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.
The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.
Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.
Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.
The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
