"There's a book of interviews with John Cage by Joan Retallack called Musicage that was finished the summer that he died, in 1992. And in one of the last interviews, he was very excited to talk about nanotechnology. There's real technophilia from him, a kind of utopian embrace of the idea that nanotechnology will free people up to do what they really want to do."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

David Grubbs

#Summer Quotes #Real Quotes #Book Quotes

“London, dirty little pool of life”
“I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor; different characters have different demands, actors that you work with are different in their approach, or how you get along or don't get along with them.”
“What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.”
“Every advantage has its disadvantage.”
“I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business,”
“I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.”
“A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.”
“Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.”

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