We shop a lot at garage sales, thrift stores.
I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don’t have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you’ve never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.
Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
I’m the child of immigrants, and there was always a garage filled with food, just in case, and you kept money under the mattress. You were always prepared, because you couldn’t trust that you were being taken care of. So that translated into my life into a lot of opportunity hoarding.
When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately dealt a death-blow to dozens of older companies.
My job remains the same, regardless of who is on the other side of the garage.
Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it’s a history lecture broadcast from a university or an amateur talk show recorded in someone’s garage.
Wherever your musical interest takes you, whether it’s just in your garage or in your shower, never forget why you started. Keep that first and foremost in your mind.
Leverage your brand. You shouldn’t let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.
A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.
I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.
If you’re in a garage band, it’s about being better than the band in the next-door garage. But in the folk tradition, it’s more a vibe of sharing.
There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I’d go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.
I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
We started the band when I was about 19 or 20. At that age, it would have been kind of hard to imagine a lot of the stuff that I’ve written. We were playing garage rock. I wanted to dash out three chords and scream. But if you do that for 20 years, what’s the point?
The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s – two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record – and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.
Grime is a particular style of music. You’ve got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It’s constantly evolving.
There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That’s where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.
I’m old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I’m awash in art studios.
Even though the mainstream doesn’t recognize garage as much or as prevalently as those crazy huge bands, garage does get the privilege of being looked upon as something that’s cool even by people that don’t understand it.
One day I went up to my mom and I said, ‘Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher – a betatron – in the garage?’ And my mom stared at me, and she said, ‘Sure. Why not? And don’t forget to take out the garbage.’
Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.
In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship – that era’s predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.
All Italians got a refrigerator in the garage. That’s what we do.
I was a little boy who watched ‘Solid Gold’ every week and wanted to be a ‘Solid Gold’ dancer. And I would do very in-depth reenactments of ‘Grease 2’ and ‘West Side Story’ with my sister Natalie in our garage. I was a very theatrical kid.
Startups were thriving in Los Angeles when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were closer to the nursery than they were the garage.
I can’t make a house homely. My house just looks like a garage or a shed. I’m not untidy, but it just looks so uninviting.
I think there’s a bargain in every garage sale – not as much as there used to be, but they’re still there.
I have total admiration for the Renault guys in the garage that are working their socks off, week in, week out.
I love magic. Like, ‘pull a scarf out of your fake thumb’ magic. I have a legit bag of ‘Magic Stuff’ in my garage.
