"Draw a straight line and follow it."

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Source : La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela (1969). “Selected Writings”

La Monte Young

#Lines Quotes #Draws Quotes

“Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.”
“You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.”
“I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke back.”
“Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.”

Source : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.23, Macmillan
“I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.”
“You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.”
“We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.”

Source : "Artists Respond To ‘Her’ With Personal Reflections On Sex, Love And Relationships" by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.
“Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.”

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