Ed Martin Quotes

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

Women are much more honourable than men.

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.

I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.

I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

Everyone is as confused as I am.

The other side of reverence is loathing.

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained.

I believe that the Democratic party has a bright future, but that like any long lived entity it needs to address some fundamental issues.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.

As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don't cheat. People do.

The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.

Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.

I think the economy in the US has surprised. The old adage is that if America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. If the US economy does well, the global economy will do well.

I don't like to think 10 years down the road.

I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years.

As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.

Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

I'm not particularly prolific.

If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.

I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.