"I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage."

-- John Lurie

#Hard Times Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes

“Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.”
“No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the adversary could put it for himself, and take account not only of what the adversary says, but also the best he MIGHT say, if only he had chanced to think it.”
“The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.”
“I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it wasn't for hiphop they'd still be living in that. So when I think of hiphop, I think hiphop saves lifes, hiphop changes lives.”
“I had ideas about music and sound and listening and time and so on that I wanted to pursue as an individual, and by doing that book, Brian [Eno] opened the door, and he decided to do a record based loosely on the book.”

Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.
“I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.”

Source : "Step-by-step guide to dance: Pina Bausch/Tanztheater Wuppertal" by Sanjoy Roy, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2010.
“Knock-knock, motherfucker.”
“The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.”

Source : George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.37, Gibbs Smith

You may also like:

Arto Lindsay
Guitarist
James Nares
Film director
Jim Jarmusch
Film director
John Zorn
Composer
Marc Ribot
Guitarist
Roberto Benigni
Actor
Tom DiCillo
Film director
Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Musician