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Dickey Betts

I'm the famous guitar player, but Dickey is the good one.

Duane Allman

#dickey betts #the allman brothers band #duane allman

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Brian Eno

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

#brian eno #music #vinyl #8 bit #physical media #roxy music #ambient #eno

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Hayao Miyazaki

Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.

#hayao miyazaki #miyazaki #studio ghibli

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Eldridge Cleaver

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

#soul on ice #eldridge cleaver

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Eileen Myles

I hope you all find yourself sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there's mystery and poetry in your life, not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.

#eileen myles #i must be living twice #chelsea girls

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Nikos Kazantzakis

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

#zorba the greek #kazantzakis #nikos kazantzakis #happiness

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buZ blurr

Ultimately transitory nature cannot be counteracted. To maintain a presence in the rail net one must assume drawings made today are replacing the ones evaporating into the ether of yesterdays before. Brakeman of monotony. A Zen koan says if something is boring for five minutes give it ten, if its boring for ten minutes give it an hour. A day. A year.

#buz blurr #moniker #train art #graffiti #colossus of roads #bozo texino #railroads

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Hurray For The Riff Raff

And I want us to be like that Running wild and running free This year tried to kill us, baby Well good luck trying, you can't catch me And I'll jump off this cliff with you If that means we will survive 'Cause we drove out to the desert Just to leave the past behind And our footsteps fall in shadows Treading light down the canyon trail And the sun is barely rising And the stars, like a wedding veil And I cannot lie to you 'Cause you can read my mind So I think I'll try with you Some things just take more time

Hurray For The Riff Raff - Buffalo

#the past is still alive #hurray for the riff raff #alynda segarra #buffalo

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Yukio Mishima

Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.

#yukio mishima #mishima

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Bob Dylan

Let me ask you one question Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could? I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die And your death will come soon I will follow your casket By the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead

Bob Dylan - Masters of War (Live 1978)

#bob dylan #masters of war #war

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Shane MacGowan

This morning on the harbour, when I said goodbye to you I remember how I swore that I'd come back to you one day And as the sunset came to meet, the evening on the hill I told you I'd always love you, I always did, I always will

The Pogues - The Body of An American (Live 1988)

#the pogues #shane macgowan

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Henry Beston

A world without wonder, and a way of mind without wonder, becomes a world without imagination, and without imagination man is a poor and stunted creature. Religion, poetry, and all the arts have their sources in this upwelling of wonder and surprise. Let us thank God that so much will forever remain out of reach, safe from our inquiry, inviolate forever from our touch.

#henry beston #wonder

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Tom Waits

You can't deny, the other side Don't want to die anymore than we do What I'm trying to say is, don't they pray To the same God that we do?

Tell me how does God choose Whose prayers does he refuse? Who turns the wheel? Who throws the dice On the day after tomorrow?

Tom Waits - Day After Tomorrow (Live 2006)

#tom waits #day after tomorrow #waits #real gone

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Alfred Korzybski

He pointed out that “either/or” is one of the basic flaws in all Western thinking, like “either intellect or emotion” instead of “both… and…” Because every action is both intellectual and emotional. For example, your cat wakes up and he feels hungry—that’s an emotion, an instinct, but then his front brain goes to work to show him where food has been, there food will be. This is still the basic guiding principle of Hollywood: what has made money will make money. But as soon as that happens, the cat’s front brain is going into operation, taking him to where the food will be—same way with people. So, trying to chop the human body into intellect and emotion… I mean it doesn’t at all correspond to what we know of the human organism and the universe.

So there’s a basic flaw. Another is the definite article, as though it was a permanent: The God, the way, instead of a God, a way. And another is the is of identity, as though this were a permanent status. “He is my servant.” Now, the Egyptian’s glyph: “He as my servant.” At this moment, he is acting as my servant. “The ‘is’ of identity,” Korzybski calls it.

William Burroughs

#korzybski #burroughs #william s. burroughs #either or #indentity #intellect #emotion

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Townes Van Zandt

In the night forlorn the morning's born And the morning shines with the lights of love And you will miss sunrise if you close your eyes And that would break my heart in two

If I Needed You (Live, 1975)

#tvz #townes van zandt #country #folk #americana

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Tom Verlaine

I remember Ooh, how the darkness doubled I recall Lightning struck itself I was listening Listening to the rain I was hearing Hearing something else Life in the hive puckered up my night A kiss of death, the embrace of life Ooh, there I stand neath the Marquee Moon Just waiting

Television - Marquee Moon (Live in San Francisco, 1978)

#television #marquee moon #verlaine #tom verlaine

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Sun Ra

Many musicians think that most people are destined to be musically ignorant, but I know that there is a spark in every person which will respond and glow to the touch of beauty. Because I know this, I am going to continue presenting beauty to the world until I ignite that spark in people's hearts.

#sun ra #Sun Ra Arkestra #space is the place #music #music quotes