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“Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.”
Source : "Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology". Book by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood and Gary C. Thomas, 1994.
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“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
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“Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?”
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“I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me”
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“A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.”
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“It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.”
Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.500, Univ of California Press
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“God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?”
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“Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on,”
