Troy Carter Quotes

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

I have personal issues with clutter. I, personally, am very minimalist and like a clean slate. I like to throw everything away.

Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more.

I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

I'll say life is simpler.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

I don't like a lot of clutter.

Put all the menus and TV guides and magazines and local info papers in the drawers. I hate clutter!

I hate clutter.

I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

I've found that eliminating not-so-important choices really frees up my mental capacity to think about the important ones.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

I hate clutter. I can't stand it.