20 Quotes by Herbert

People do things for love and belief and passion, not just because they’re paid to do it.

Actually, time and time again people always come back to my early, more innocent stuff, and say, “I kind of prefer that.” I could go back to writing that and probably make more people happy, but it just doesn’t feel like the right thing to do. I don’t want to take the lazy route.

Pigs are very intelligent. They’re very misunderstood. Yet they’re sort of man’s unofficial best friend.

I always talk about my ambition with music, and it’s to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn’t normally listen to or want to hear.

As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government.

Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.

I think people are complacent about sound, because we’re so limited by the textures and timbres we hear in music, but in our everyday life we hear the most incredible things.

I think I have a particular logic of my own that has to do with sound and sampling sound, and there isn’t a great deal of music out there in that field. Whereas, harmonically and melodically, there’s loads.

Other than rhythm, the only thing I could say is that I take a great deal of pride in every single sound I use. I’m always making sure that I’m not using a pre-set or something that everyone else has done.