“You’re caught in a labyrinth of choice and possibility in the world today so you have more opportunity to express your desire, fulfill your desire, sin if you like. The thin line between paradise and ‘The Devil’s Circus’. The agony and the internal ecstasy. I try to resonate this.”
~’Youth’ Martin Glover; british musician, producer and artist.
“Music is prophecy: its styles and economic organization are ahead of the rest of society because it explores, much faster than material reality can, the entire range of possibilities in a given code. It makes audible the new world that will gradually become visible.” ‘Noise’ (1977)
~Jacques Atalli; french author and economist.
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
~Edgar Lawrence Doctorow; american author.
“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.”
~Marshall McLuhan; canadian communications theorist and author.
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
~John Lennon; british singer-songwriter, artist, musician and activist.
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
~Andy Warhol; american artist.
“We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the capitalistic experiment. Once we came to understand the simple truth that earth’s resources were limited, in fact soon to run out, the whole capitalistic illusion fell to pieces. Those of us who spoke this truth were denounced as heretics, as enemies of the prevailing economic faith. Like religious Dissenters of an earlier day…”
~Thomas Pynchon; american author and satirist.
“I’m always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don’t see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.”
~Irvine Welsh; scottish author and playwright.
“We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
~Ram Dass; american author, psychonaut and spiritual guide.
“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
~Carlos Castenada; american author and philosopher.