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Quote of the Month…August -2017

“I don’t think i’m easy to define. I’ve got a very wandering mind. And i’m not anything that you think i am anyway.”
~ Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett; british musician, composer, singer-songwriter and painter.




Quote of the Month…July -2017

“Previously the most lucid artists had wanted to break the separation between art and life; the Situationist International raised this demand to a higher level in their desire to abolish the distance between life and revolution.”
~ Gilles Dauve; french author, political theorist, school teacher and translator in a Critique of the Situationist International, 1979.




Quote of the Month…June -2017

“If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.”
~ Anne Frank; german author.




Quote of the Month…May -2017

“Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.”
~ Lou Andreas-Salome; russian psychoanalyst and author.




Quote of the Month…April -2017

“I think everything’s experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It’s no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music – until you say, ‘This is my song, or this is my composition’ – it’s all experimental, whether you like it or not.”
~ Bill Laswell; american musician and producer.




Quote of the Month…March -2017

“At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.”
~ Walter Rudolf Hess; swiss physiologist.




Quote of the Month…February -2017

“Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.”
~ Ferdinand de Saussure; swiss linguist and semiotician.




Quote of the Month…January -2017

“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
~ Dr. Viktor Frankl; austrian neurolgist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor.




Quote o’ the Month; December 2016

“The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy.”
~ Abraham Maslow; american psychologist.




Quote o’ the Month; November 2016

“The poet’s spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”
~ Salvatore Quasimodo; italian novelist and poet.