"I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van on the street in front of a club in the West 60s called Hurrah. It's where Pylon played. I saw Klaus Nomi play there. And Michael Gira's band before he did Swans-they all wore cowboy boots and were so cool and had great hair. I was so jealous."

-- Michael Stipe

#New York Quotes #Jealous Quotes #Cowboy Quotes

“This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum, something like a dollar a word. I don't say that for the column, but for articles that she would write and things like that. And she made lots of speeches.”
“Self-government means self support.”
“... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.”
“Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.”
“Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.”

Source : Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.143, Harvard University Press
“9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life? I know. Will eat some cheese.”
“I call you once...you never dialed back. Twice...you never dialed back. Saturday morning, live, I'm on Soul Train, talkin' to Don Cornelius. Saturday night, my phone rings... Saturday night, I won't answer. Saturday night, my phone rings again... Saturday night, I don't answer.”
“I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.”

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