"I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex."

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Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.

John Baldessari

“If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.”

Source : Mona Sahlin in Swedish television, September 8, 1994.
“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.”
“Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.”
“COIL would very much like to see the creation of a newsgroup for minimal musics. We enjoy a wide spectrum of such musics, from La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Arvo Part, Nurse With Wound's Solilique For Lilith,The Dream Syndicate (orig.concept not the newer group who plundered the name) to Synus, Earth and so on.and on and on. Some new so called ambient musics fall between genres and so between newsgroups: some of our own music has certainly been deeply inspired by and informed by such musics,from Partch to Subotnic.”
“In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.”
“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.”
“I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.”
“I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.”

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