"No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit."

-- Phill Niblock

#Bullshit Quotes #Harmony Quotes #Rhythm Quotes

“Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable.”

Source : 1989 A Disaffection.
“To find people who don't want anything is rare.”
“Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.”
“When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos”
“All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?”
“Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.”
“People have to be given the freedom to show the heart they possess. I think itâ€™s a leaderâ€™s responsibility to provide that type of freedom. And I believe it can be done through relationships and family. Because if a team is a real family, itâ€™s members want to show you their hearts.”
“It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer I am', so let's change it completely and say 'Look, I've got to learn to love myself'. And that's been a really hard thing to do because when you've done a performance that you're not proud of and the public and the media have criticized you.....people are really quick to make judgements so it was tough to say 'Well I don't care what you have to say. I'm going to do this for myself and if you don't like me after this, well then, it's too bad'.”

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