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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Musicians and music are regarded as worthless these days. Their work can be picked up free and shared. They are less valued than bottled water...
When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't
have a lot of stage presence and most of the [interpretive] intensity
that I brought to the experience was actually terror.
You go to the theater to be surprised.
Some days I hear a voice taking me to another place.
Some days are better than others.
I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is
moving from one smoke-filled room to another.
I chased perpetual pleasure and got a full measure of pain as a payback.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect.
If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue;
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday. When I was young.
Wine is sunlight held together by water.
I used to drink to forget the past.
Now I drink to forget the future.
I once inhaled a pretty full dose of ether, with the determination to
put on record, at the earliest moment of regaining consciousness, the
thought I should find uppermost in my mind. The mighty music of the
triumphal march into nothingness reverberated through my brain, and
filled me with a sense of infinite possibilities which made me an
archangel for the moment. The veil of eternity was lifted. The one
great truth which underlies all human experience, and is the key to
all the mysteries that philosophy has sought in vain to solve, flashed
upon me in a sudden revelation. Henceforth all was clear: a few words
had lifted my intelligence to the level of the knowledge of the
cherubim. As my natural condition returned, I remembered my
resolution; and, staggering to my desk, I wrote in ill-shaped,
straggling characters, the all-embracing truth still glimmering in my
consciousness. The words were these (children may smile, the wise will
ponder): 'A strong smell of turpentine prevails throughout.'
Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman; it leads to an indiscriminate
contempt for the human.
But for me to want to
choreograph a piece, there's got to be some twist to it, something
odd. A certain weirdness. [...] A
lot of music I choose is the opposite of what people would choose to
dance to.
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