"I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer."

-- Bobby Seale

#Community Quotes

“Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it”
“When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.”

Source : "Live From Sundance: A GQA with Mark Duplass". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. January 18, 2012.
“Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.”
“Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!”

Source : FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Dec 07, 2014
“Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.”
“Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.”
“I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!”
“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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