Fripp on Bowie:

Q: Why was Bowie so influential? (paraphrase).
A: He spoke on behalf of what is highest in all of us.


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The highest purpose is to have

no purpose at all.

This puts one in accord

with nature,

in her manner of operation.

~John Cage


"I want to be faster than anyone. Faster than the cold, faster than man, the earth, Andromeda." - Kaoru Abe

“Sound that stops the capacity for judgment. Sound that never decays. Sound that breaks free from every possibe image. Sound that comes from both death and birth. Sound that dies. The sound around me. Sound like the symptoms of eternal cold turkey. Sound that resists private ownership. Sound that goes insane. Sound that spills over from the cosmos. The sound of sound.”
–Kaoru Abe, on his musical concerns

“I go out on stage, and my intention is to make the first four rows bleed from their ears.” –Sonny Sharrock

“[N]oise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.” - John Cage, 1937.

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All the music I play is an attempt to recreate the sounds I hear from the cosmos (by which I DON'T mean God), but with AMT there's something more - some kind of special power that always exists in the group itself. Everything, from our own limitations to everything beyond them, gets pulled along by this power. But I have no idea what this power is.
-Makoto Kawabata
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Back in my hotel room to write this talk, and I put
Glastonbury up on the tv while I write. Springsteen's
on. Not a huge fan of the man, though I admire
his industry. The man puts in a day's work on stage.
And he's sweating, working hard. Got his foot up
on an amp as he sings. It's just him, right now, the
stage is blacked out, and there's one spot behind
him. And he's hot, and it's cold night out there, and
he's steaming. And he's just blown the authenticity
thing and gone into supermystification, because it
looks like he's got an electromagnetic halo, curls of
glowing, pearly white light rising up from and playing
around his head and shoulders while he stands there
in near-silhouette....

He looks like he's The Last Rock Star, the Ascended
Master who glows in the dark.

- Warren Ellis



"We were not careful
Then we didn't care
And now we fade, we fade
What have we done, society?"
-jmdumas