Downes Quotes

Live a life wondering what life is about and fail to live at all. ~ Luke Downes

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves. ~ Stephen Downes

You want to pass, or miss a turn. You have to move, though. When you do, you're suddenly weak. Zugzwang. ~ Patrick Downes

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road. ~ Geoff Downes

This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true. ~ Stephen Downes

I want to feel normal. I want to be normal. ~ Patrick Downes

Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years. ~ Geoff Downes

As stakeholders run for the exits, market value is destroyed, and with it the flexibility to make strategic decisions. ~ Larry Downes

I'm always working on many new projects that I can't talk about because of NDA's ... ~ Robin Atkin Downes

He looked at her amiably, as though she were a nice sofa. That must be the penalty of the grey hairs, the tired shadows under the eyes, that must be the beginning of getting old. She had noticed it. Young men looked at you as though you were a nice sofa, an article of furniture which they would never be desirous of acquiring. ~ Mollie Panter-Downes

Well, Kevin Downes is the producer of Mom's Night Out. He was a fellow actor with me in the movie Courageous. He plays my police partner and we have been friends for several years. He came and helped me on Courageous and said "Would you come help me on Mom's Night Out?" ~ Alex Kendrick

Everyone was carrying something, she was beginning to realize. The world was a much darker and more complicated place than she'd every thought. ~ Anna Downes

The more the world commits to programs for poverty and education, the greater the gap for those with intellectual disabilities. That's because money goes where results are quick and quantifiable, which is not likely for people with intellectual disabilities. ~ LAWRENCE DOWNES

With NOAH, you can create some stunning, yet original soundscapes. Therefore, as a performance tool, it really comes into its own because you can make one single performance which has a lot of detail. ~ Geoff Downes

Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds. ~ Geoff Downes

I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a wide range of disabilities. For six years I spent every summer living in a small cabin with five men with Downes Syndrome. It was just me and these five guys, all in their forties and fifties. We had such a great time. ~ Arthur Bradford

I've always been a big fan of Guillermo del Toro, 'Pan's Labryinth' blew me away. The stories and the worlds that he's created, he is truly a visionary! ~ Robin Atkin Downes

Nature has always been and always will be, as far as my tiny brain can understand, miraculous. Except, nature won't last because the world won't. ~ Patrick Downes

I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time. ~ Geoff Downes

He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He died. ~ Patrick Downes

Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that. ~ Geoff Downes

E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea
the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven
to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities. And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0. ~ Stephen Downes

Eulogy:
He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk. A boy made of milk and concrete. He was cut in two. He bled and died.
A stranger smart enough to steal a child and lock a door took the boy's life. The man cut him in half, then chewed him up. Blood and rubble.
Even though the boy was dead, he dreamed up a girl with skin and hair of light taking care of him, holding his hand, He dreamed the girl gave him a kiss, and he wondered if the kiss would send him back to the world. It didn't. It kept him under. He sleeps in the box with the girl made from light.
We have to forget him so we can take him with us. ~ Patrick Downes

To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based. ~ Geoff Downes

I have no regrets. To regret my past would be to admit I am not satisfied with who or what I have become. Everything I have accomplished and all I have been exposed to - good or evil - has created what sits before you. ~ Scott Hildreth

Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track. ~ Geoff Downes

After All, The universe worked in strange and mysterious ways. ~ Anna Downes