Norman Blake Quotes
When I was a kid I listened to a lot of punk music, but then along came Orange Juice... They really broadened my musical perspective. They were self-deprecating and had a great sense of humor. And they sounded like Velvet Underground meeting Al Green. They called themselves 'the sound of young Scotland,' a play on Motown's 'Sound of Young America.' 
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[Norman Blake, interim chairman of the Enron board, insisted he and his colleagues did question management and did not rubber stamp management's recommendations and requests.] Unfortunately... I believe that we were uninformed because management and outside experts who reported to us failed to do their jobs and give us full, complete information.
- Norman Blake
All you can do is make the records, and hope a group of people will pick up on it, and it will become the received wisdom that that's the record to buy... Because that's kind of how the music business works, isn't it? You think of the Coldplay record or something like that. The received wisdom is that you should have that on your coffee table, if you buy one record every two months or whatever.
- Norman Blake