Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools. - Dogen - Quotesmemo.com

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To make a live record - something that has a lot of life in it - is difficult. After slaving away for years in the studio, when I hear a No Age record or when I hear Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first EP or when I hear DRI or really early punk stuff, it's just so powerful, so raw - and I know how hard that is to create. It's very deceptive. It's like a Dardenne brothers film - it seems like just a handheld camera following some people around in a trailer park, but it's incredibly difficult to do that.

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Dogen

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

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In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

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Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

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Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

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