Carving Dann / Then Die meisten / Most Gesellschaft / Society Likes Nett / Kind Nische / Niche Platzierung / Placing Praktisch / Convenient Sehr groß / Vast Statue Verschwörung / Conspiracy
When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.
Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
If we're playing and competing at the level we want to and we know we can, then nothing else is really going to matter.
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.
