"The idea that recording itself is an instrument."

-- Michael Snow

#Ideas Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?”
“This guy says, "I'm perfect for you, 'cause I'm a cross between a macho man and a sensitive man." I said, "Oh, a gay trucker?"”
“Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.”
“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
“Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.”
“The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.81, Tuttle Publishing
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“Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.”

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