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Leadership Quote by Mike Lowry

"We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there"

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An “electronic vein” is a funny, almost bodily image for what politicians usually call innovation: not a tool you pick up, but a lifeline you tap. Mike Lowry’s phrasing frames technology as something circulating under the skin of modern culture, already there, already pumping, and newly routed into the amplifier stack. The intent is pragmatic but also defensive. He’s not claiming revolution; he’s claiming competent adaptation.

The second half of the line does a lot of political work: “applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.” That’s an appeal to normalcy, a preemptive rebuttal to purists who treat any electronic element as betrayal. By invoking “tons of bands,” Lowry borrows legitimacy from mass practice rather than elite approval. It’s populism in miniature: if enough people are doing it, it’s no longer suspect, it’s simply contemporary.

Context matters because Lowry is a politician talking in the language of popular music and production. That choice signals a desire to sound fluent in the cultural vernacular of his moment, to align governance with the feel of modern life: hybrid, remixed, less precious about genre boundaries. The subtext is coalition-building. Rock stands in for tradition and authenticity; electronics stand in for the future and efficiency. Lowry’s sentence tries to stitch them together and, in doing so, quietly argues that blending old identity with new infrastructure isn’t selling out - it’s how you stay audible.

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Lowry, Mike. (2026, January 15). We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-have-an-electronic-vein-we-have-tapped-and-159233/

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Lowry, Mike. "We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-have-an-electronic-vein-we-have-tapped-and-159233/.

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"We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-have-an-electronic-vein-we-have-tapped-and-159233/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Mike Lowry (March 8, 1939 - May 1, 2017) was a Politician from USA.

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