Gerard Cox famous quotes

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
-- Gerard Cox

#Intellectual #Mask #Devices

I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.
-- Gerard Cox

#Mom #Teacher #Dad

The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.
-- Gerard Cox

#People #Digging #Music Is

Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.
-- Gerard Cox

#Quality #Technique #Meals

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

I'm a fake intellectual.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.